Adding folic acid to flour
We want your views on whether flour millers should be required by law to add folic acid to flour.
Opened
13 Jun 2019
Closed
10 Sep 2019
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Linked documents
- Other Consultation update
- Open Consultation Ministerial foreword: proposal to add folic acid to flour
- Open Consultation Proposal to add folic acid to flour: consultation document
- Open Consultation Rhagair y Gweinidogion: cynnig i ychwanegu asid ffolig at flawd
- Open Consultation Cynnig i ychwanegu asid ffolig at flawd: dogfen ymgynghori
- Consultation Outcome Proposal to add folic acid to flour: consultation response
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We’re seeking your views on our proposal to make it mandatory for flour millers to add folic acid to flour (a process known as ‘fortification’).
Mandatory fortification of flour with folic acid should help raise people’s levels of a vitamin called ‘folate’.
Raising folate levels in women who could become pregnant would help reduce the number of babies born with birth defects of the brain, spine or spinal cord, known as ‘neural tube defects’.
We want to introduce this change across the UK.