HEALTH
Failure to fortify flour and rice with sufficient folic acid will lead to avoidable birth defects in UK, warns expert
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The UK government’s failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid “will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented,” argues Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in The BMJ today…