The government said it would tolerate the law being broken. Dr Clare Craig Mandatory folic acid fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour does not come into force until 13 December 2026 but folic acid has been in the food supply for some time without anyone being informed. Millers began fortifying flour in September 2025 and by […]
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Chapatti flour and the highest-risk women
Reaching the women most at risk Dr Clare Craig AMMENDMENT: N.B. This article has been edited. It had implied all chapatti flour (atta) was wholemeal which is wrong. Much of the atta sold in Britain is white or blended. The error came from mis-reading a December 2024 Lords debate. In answer to a question about […]
Dosage is key to efficacy, so why is it ignored for safety?
Smaller doses act differently to larger ones Dr Clare Craig Key points • The same molecule at different doses can produce different effects and sometimes opposite ones. • Regulators expect different efficacy by dose including non-linear dose responses • Safety assessment is built around finding the dose at which harm begins as the dose rises. […]
The children who pay the price
Children are the ones most likely to overdose on folic acid Dr Clare Craig Key points The safe upper limit for a child aged one to three is 200 micrograms of folic acid a day. For an adult it is 1,000. The limit is precautionary because no safety trials have ever been done. At the […]
Hunting for evidence of folate deficiency as a cause of neural tube defects
Examining the evidence for a link between folate deficiency and neural tube defects. Wthout this, a total population folic acid supplement is on very shake ground, even without considering potential harms.
Letter re Folic acid to the Secretary of State
HART & UKMFA letter to Secretary of State re mandatory folic acid fortification has yielded the usual bland reply with no resposne to any of our specific concerns. So no surprises there
Mandatory Folic acid supplements
a summary of all the evidence against the government’s decision for mandatory folic acid in all flour.
Folic acid and Cancer: the safety studies do not show what is claimed
Folic Acid is a building block for DNA and drives cell division. Will the proposed fortification of bread inadvertently increase cancer risks?
