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.
Tag: public health
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.
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?
