Adding folic acid to flour could prevent around 200 cases of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, every year, and ...

Flour is already fortified with calcium, niacin, thiamine and iron to improve public health. The move to include folic acid ...

The government announced new measures this week, to help prevent conditions including spina bifida by adding folic acid to ...

A deficiency of folic acid during pregnancy can increase the risk of serious problems for babies, known as neural tube ...

Bread and flour will be fortified with an essential vitamin in a bid to prevent serious birth defects in hundreds of babies ...

Bread and flour will be fortified with an essential vitamin in a bid to prevent serious birth defects in hundreds of babies ...

Folic acid will be added to non-wholemeal flour from the end of 2026 to prevent birth defects, the Government has announced.

UK mandates folic acid fortification in non-wholemeal flour by 2026, aiming to prevent 200 birth defects annually such as ...

Folic acid fortification will be introduced in the UK to help reduce the number of life-threatening birth defects in babies ...

Fortification comes as part of update to the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998, with small-scale mills and wholemeal flour ...

5, 2023 — Pregnant women eating modern diets are missing ... Mar. 6, 2023 — Researchers assessed in an animal model the effect of folic acid supplementation on mutation rates and other genetic ...

When you’re pregnant, for example, a folic acid deficiency is tied to neural tube defects that cause spina bifida (a birth defect of the spine) in babies. That’s why the Centers for Disease ...