blinkx

  • HEALTH: FSA recommend folic acid to be added to food products

  • 00:00:16
  • ITN Source
    • Browse

HEALTH: FSA recommend folic acid to be added to food products

Experts on the board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) have unanimously called for folic acid to be routinely added to bread or flour as a way of cutting birth defects. Between 700 and 900 pregnancies every year result in babies with defects such as spina bifida. Taking folic acid supplements can reduce such a risk by 70 per cent. Nine-year old Alex Charles has been left permanently disabled by the condition and his father Anthony Charles is backing the new proposals. Folic acid tablets (ITN LIB) / Anthony Charles interview and along with son with spina bifida / Bread cooking

ITN Source | May 17, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

Tags:. .between. .health. .food. .source. .every











Acid   Agency   Alex   Along   Anthony   Babies   Between   Birth   Board   Bread   Cent   Charles   Condition   Cooking   Cutting   Defects   Disabled   Every   Experts   Father   Flour   Folic   Food   Fsa   Health   Itn   Left   Lib   Per   Permanently   Pregnancies   Proposals   Recommend   Reduce   Result   Risk   Routinely   Son   Source   Spina   Standards   Such   Supplements   Tablets   Unanimously