In last January’s enewsletter, I had mentioned that we had received many requests for products with sunflower seeds.  At that time, I asked for feedback on both the pros and cons after which we received several emails for both sides.

After carefully reviewing the feedback and, in many cases, having further discussions with the people who sent in feedback on the con side, it was evident that sunflower seeds would be overwhelmingly well accepted as long as they were  were controlled on the pouch line only (trail mixes, baking ingredients, etc.) in the same manner that we currently control the soybeans.

Although sunflower seeds are not a top 12 allergen, I want to give several months notice that we will be offering trail mix with raw kernel sunflower seeds and pouches of sunflower seeds themselves with an expected launch date in May 2010.  The sunflower seeds themselves would arrive in the facility by April 2010.  At this time, the storage, packaging and production with the sunflower seeds will be limited to the pouch line and will not be stored by nor on the line with the granola bars and granola clusters.

To review the current manufacturing set up to see how we handle the pouch line with soybeans currently, please see our website at:  http://www.nonuttin.com/shop/content/allergen-declarations.html