Development folate preventing neural tube

A consequence of these studies is that the Food and Drug Administration (fTDA) has recomtnended that commercially available flour and cereal products be fortified w ith folic acid 1-4 tug folic acid/kg flour) for preventing NTDs (Tucker cf ai, 1996). The consumer interested in the folate level in any particular food can view the label on the package. Folic acid supplements have the effect of reducing the level of homocysteine in the blood. This homocysteine effect appears directly relevant to the prevention of atherosclerosis, but may also be relevant to neural tube defects. The reader interested in continuing developments regarding neural tube defects and folate should take note of the relationship between folate and homocysteine, presented in the Vitamin 8 section. 

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