Government Needs to Go Further in Folic Acid Fortification to Prevent Avoidable Birth Defects
June 20, 2024
June 20, 2024
LONDON, England, June 20 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news:
The UK government's failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid "will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented," argues UCL's Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in an opinion piece for The BMJ.
In the piece, published last night, Professor Wald (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) warns that the curren . . .
The UK government's failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid "will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented," argues UCL's Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in an opinion piece for The BMJ.
In the piece, published last night, Professor Wald (UCL Institute of Health Informatics) warns that the curren . . .