The government are seriously planning to introduce mandatory folic acid supplementation for every man, woman and child in the UK, in order to try and prevent maybe 31 children born with spina bifida. There has been no scientific Impact Assessment and NO parliamentary debate.
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A reply to our recent letter re mandatory folic acid
Baroness Gerada has sent a detailed reply On 30th August, Nick Hunt from the Perseus Group, joined Clare Craig from HART and Liz Evans from UKMFA in writing to the 20 medically qualified MPs and peers about the potential risks of mandatory folic acid supplementation of the entire population of men, women and children, all […]
Letter to medically qualified MPs & peers
An open letter to medically qualified MPs and peers, highlights the potential risks of synthetic folic acid. particularly when rolled out to the entire population through mandatory fortification of flour.
Folic acid is in the food but not on the label
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 […]
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 upper limit for a child aged one to three is 200 micrograms of folic acid a day, scaled down from the adult figure. No safe upper level has ever been set. For an adult it is 1,000. 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?
