Consumer NZ supports putting folic acid in non-organic bread-making flour, saying it balances consumer choice with reducing devastating birth defects
Consumer NZ supports putting folic acid in non-organic bread-making flour, saying it balances consumer choice with reducing devastating birth defects
11 April 2020
Consumer also wants an education campaign to make sure women know they must also take folic acid supplements before conception and in early pregnancy.
The Government is again considering making it mandatory for non-organic bread or bread-making flour to be fortified with folic acid, after plans for the public health initiative were dropped in 2009 following opposition, including from the food industry.
New modelling has estimated up to 171 pregnancies affected by a neural tube defect could have been prevented in the past 10 years had mandatory fortification of bread gone ahead.
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