The most at risk women eat flour that has been exempted from fortification Dr Clare Craig Key points Neural tube defect risk is highest among women of Indian and Bangladeshi origin. They are also the least likely to take a folic acid supplement before pregnancy. Despite their higher risk these groups only account for about […]
Tag: folic acid
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?
