WASHINGTON — The nation’s top health officials joined leaders of a major nonprofit food allergy research group Monday to call for action into the root causes of the immune response disease. Allergies affect 1 in 13 children and 1 in 10 adults in the U.S., according to the Food Allergy Fund, but their specific triggers aren’t entirely clear.

“There may be many factors. There may be only one. We don’t know,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at the fund's Food Allergy Forum in Washington, where he was joined by leaders of the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“Why don’t we know? Because there has been basically malpractice in the government-funded scientific community. Why was

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