Over the last 18 years, genetically modified food has become quite common in the United States. During that same period, a growing number of children have developed allergies to food.
Just because the timing coincides, though, does not necessarily mean eating genetically modified food caused the rise, said Rick Goodman, a food science and technology professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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