The addition of folic acid builds on existing measures that already see flour fortified with calcium, niacin, thiamine, and iron to bolster public health. Experts project that this intervention ...

Flour to be fortified with folic acid from 2026 to tackle serious birth defects - Folic acid helps the body produce healthy ...

Stormont is planning a law change that will force all flour that isn’t wholemeal to be fortified with folic acid.

Nurses have been urged to continue to promote the importance of folic acid supplementations following fortification of flour.

Bread and flour will be fortified with an essential vitamin in a bid to prevent serious birth defects in hundreds of babies every year, the Government has announced. The new legislation will ...

KARACHI: Sindh Food Authority (SFA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ...

Around 200 cases of brain and spine defects in babies every year could be prevented by fortifying non-wholemeal wheat flour ...

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

Food producers in Northern Ireland will have to add folic acid to non-wholemeal flour by law from 2026. The Department of ...

Joe Brennan, head of technical and regulatory affairs at UK Flour Millers noted flour was already fortified with folic acid ...

Iron deficiency is one of the most common and pervasive nutritional disorders across the globe, affecting millions regardless ...