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The answer is probably not. Writing in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Consumer Magazine, Jane E. Henney, M.D., commissioner of the FDA, points out that the new genes and the proteins they make have no apparent effect on the people eating them. The genes are DNA, present in all foods, easily digested and not associated with human illness. The new proteins that have been FDA approved are nontoxic, are rapidly digestible and do not have the characteristics of proteins known to cause allergies. If they do, they must be labeled as such. Read more…

Allergy allergy, drug, proteins

Food allergy can occur when the immune system recognizes and responds to certain proteins in food. Although as many as 40 percent of the U.S. population believe they have had digestive problems attributable to food allergy, only approximately 1 percent of them will have this diagnosis borne out with definitive testing. Read more…

Allergy allergy, discomfort, immune system