Yes, because many people, when they can’t find out for sure, will just say it’s gluten free. Then when you get sick for weeks, you find out they lied thinking, like this comic, it’s a harmless lie. If it’s labeled gluten free, it actually has to be true. https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/gluten-free-labeling-foodsIn a restaurant setting, you still have to be careful because if someone reuses a utensil, pot, etc or in some other way cross contaminates, you’ll still get sick eating something that was originally labeled gluten free.
Actually, you’d be surprised at all the places you’ll find gluten, such as in over the counter medicine. Having things say gluten free is actually so much easier as someone with celiac disease where I’ll spend weeks with headaches, mouth sores, and everything in general hurting if I eat something with gluten. So, a restaurant labeling things is far from needless.
Yes, because many people, when they can’t find out for sure, will just say it’s gluten free. Then when you get sick for weeks, you find out they lied thinking, like this comic, it’s a harmless lie. If it’s labeled gluten free, it actually has to be true. https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/gluten-free-labeling-foodsIn a restaurant setting, you still have to be careful because if someone reuses a utensil, pot, etc or in some other way cross contaminates, you’ll still get sick eating something that was originally labeled gluten free.