Thousands of UK birth defects ’caused by failure to fortify flour with folic acid’
Fortification of flour with folic acid is not mandatory in the UK, which has resulted in more than 2,000 avoidable cases of neural tube defects in the country since 1998.
December 18, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: country, folic-acid, neural-tube, not-mandatory, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, pregnancy / obstetrics, the-country