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<text id=92TT2719>
<title>
Dec. 07, 1992: Fortified Bread
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 30
HEALTH & SCIENCE
Fortified Bread
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<p>The FDA considers adding a B vitamin to flour to help prevent
birth defects
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<p> There would be no change in the taste of the daily bread, but
the addition of folic acid, a valuable B vitamin, to flour,
breads and baked goods, as recommended by an advisory panel of
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, could prevent a lot of
misery. Just a smidgen of B, the group reports, could reduce the
risk of neural-tube birth defects.
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<p> About 2,500 babies are born in the U.S. each year with
most of the brain missing or the spinal column incompletely
closed. Reflecting recent studies, many doctors advise that
women planning pregnancy consume 0.4 mg of folic acid daily--about double their average intake--by eating more leafy green
vegetables, citrus fruits, beans and fortified cereals or by
taking vitamin pills. But many pregnancies are unplanned, and
women do not realize that they are expecting until it is too
late for supplements to do much good. Before approving the
recommendation, the FDA must weigh whether the B-fortified food
would have harmful side effects.
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