Current government proposals do not go far enough to help pregnant women, leading experts claim.
By Philippa RoxbyLeading scientists say adding higher levels of folic acid to all flour and rice would stop hundreds more UK babies being born with lifelong disabilities.
Women are advised to take a daily folic supplement before becoming pregnant but many do not - mostly the least well-off - and about half of pregnancies are also unplanned. "This is not a trivial condition," she said. "It leads to major lifelong complications for baby and family." "I'm the one who has to pick up the pieces," she said, when families choose to have late terminations of affected babies after a diagnosis is discovered.
It was important to be aware of unintended consequences but "they seem to very small indeed", he added.showed that taking a daily 4mg folic acid supplement reduced neural tube defects in babies by about 80% in a UK trial.
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