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Are Overbroad Peanut Bans Exacerbating Food Allergies?

It's long been conventional wisdom that kids should be protected from potential allergens. But new research is turning that idea on its head.

They're banned from commercial flights and school lunch rooms. They're a hidden danger lurking everywhere—in processed foods, fast foods, and Pad Thai. As I've talked about before, the spate of (sometimes hyperbolic) media coverage around peanuts in the last decade has contributed to what the British Medical Journal calls an "exaggerated perception of risk." We're all on red alert and that's not a good thing.

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