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Debate rages on about fortifying world food supply with folic acid

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 10th, 2004

Only about 25% of women in many countries voluntarily take folic acid tablets before conception, says a University of Toronto researcher.

Joel Ray, along with fellow researchers Gita Singh of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and Robert Burrows of Monash University in Australia, reviewed nearly 50 studies conducted in about 20 countries between 1992 and 2001.

Their findings were published in the May 2004 edition of BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

By taking folic acid before pregnancy or during the first few weeks after conception, women can markedly lower the risk of neural tube defects...

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