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 ...

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

New legislation, set to take effect by the end of 2026, will mandate the fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour with ...

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 ...

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

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

The recipes in your local supermarket’s flour and all of its by-products could be changing in hopes of saving the unborn ...

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

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