LONDON The number of babies born in the US with neural tube defects has fallen by 19% since folic acid started to be added to bread and other grain products three years ago, according to new research (
On 13 January 2000 the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition (COMA), a group of independent scientific experts, recommended that folic acid should be added to flour in order to reduce the incidence of neural tube defects in the UK. There then followed a consultation period, which ended last October. Nothing more has happened since then.
Nick Wald, a member of the COMA advisory committee and Professor of Environmental and Preventative Medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, said: "I don't know ...
