Adding folic acid to all UK flour is mass medication without consent
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Starting December 13, most non-wholemeal wheat flour in the UK has to carry added folic acid, so most bread, biscuits and pastries will have it. The government says it'll cut neural tube defects like spina bifida by around 20%. A petition to stop it has passed 133k signatures, with people arguing synthetic folic acid isn't the same as natural folate and that people with MTHFR variants shouldn't be forced to eat it. The US has fortified flour since 1998. Is this a sensible public health move, or mass medication nobody consented to?
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the US and canada have done this for decades and spina bifida rates dropped. the MTHFR thing is mostly instagram wellness talk