Petition Stop the plans to add folic acid to flour because of allergies

News that folic acid is to be added to flour could be bad news for the future health of children. Folic acid during pregnancy has been linked to food allergies in later childhood. Increased allergies increase the burden on NHS. Some allergies are potentially fatal.

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Recent medical research https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/aaaai/71566

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5949539/

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-467/POST-PN-467.pdf

Increasing allergies
https://www.allergyuk.org/information-and-advice/statistics

Increasing food allergies in children and death
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/01/why-are-food-allergies-in-children-on-the-rise-and-is-there-anything-parents-can-do-to-protect-them

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Date closed 30 April 2019
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