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OB: Folate In FlourFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Tue Dec 4 06:19:18 2007
The debate over folic acid is a familiar one, and Americans could be excused for thinking it was over. Since 1998, the federal government has required that almost all flour be fortified with the supplement. But in fact, the requirement has meant women receive an average extra dose of just 100 micrograms of folic acid a day — far below the levels that have been shown in studies to prevent spina bifida and other neural tube defects. For more than a decade, the Food and Drug Administration has resisted calls to require that the amount be doubled. To Dr. Godfrey Oakley, the former director of birth defects research for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is a baffling situation. “Until this day the F.D.A. still obstructs folic acid supplementation,” he said. “It’s like making a vaccine against polio with only one strain instead of four.” The debate is intensifying. In the past two years, the American Medical Association, the March of Dimes and several pediatric societies have called on the food and drug agency to reconsider. The only country now adding the amount recommended by experts like Dr. Michael Katz, the medical director of the March of Dimes, is Chile. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/nutrition/04foli.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin Art
-- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton
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