Folic acid deficiency declined substantially after introduction of the mandatory fortification programme in Queensland, Australia: a secondary health data analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: While voluntary folic acid fortification, introduced in 1995, failed especially in high-risk subgroups, the 2009 mandatory folic acid fortification programme coincided with a substantial decrease of folic acid deficiency in the entire population. PMID: 31482769 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31482769?dopt=Abstract

Source: Public Health Nutrition - September 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Slagman A, Harriss L, Campbell S, Muller R, McDermott R Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research