Folic acid to be added to UK flour to help prevent birth defects

Folic acid to be added to UK flour to help prevent birth defects Folic acid is to be added to UK flour to help prevent spinal birth defects in babies, the government will announce.

Women are advised to take the B vitamin - which can guard against spina bifida in unborn babies - before and during pregnancy, but many do not.

It is thought that adding folic acid to flour could prevent up to 200 birth defects a year. BBC News