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Originally Posted by stevie667
Certainly strange things going on today, i just read a news article suggesting the increased use of folic acid to stop just this thing.
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Yeah, the first paragraph of the article from the link posted above deals with that:
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In 1992, the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that women of childbearing age increase consumption of the vitamin folic acid to reduce spina bifida and anencephalus. In 1996, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized that all enriched cereal grain products be fortified with folic acid. Optional fortification started in March 1996 and mandatory fortification in January 1998.
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http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pub...spine_anen.htm