Food Ingredients, Health & Nutrition

It will be mandatory to add folic acid to non-wholemeal flour from 2025. Image: Getty / Lucy Lambriex

Bread fortification to prevent brain defects in babies

New regulations that will see folic acid added to all non-wholemeal flour in the UK will prevent around 200 cases of debilitating brain and spine defects in babies every year, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)....