California now requires tortillas to be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects in the Latino community, where ...

Starting in 2025, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects—a change aimed at closing a gap ...

Mom-and-pop shops will be exempt from this change, but big manufacturers in California will need to start adding folic acid ...

The US Food and Drug Administration began mandating folic acid fortification in 1998 but only for enriched wheat flour, rice ...

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California will require folic acid in store‑bought corn tortillas starting next Thursday. Small bakeries are exempt.

Tortillas sold in California are getting a new ingredient addition, in hopes that it will help raise healthier babies.

Here, a dietitian talks us through the science behind the new policy that makes folic acid fortification mandatory in ...

"Well over half of neural tube defects can be prevented with sufficient folic acid consumption before conception and in early pregnancy," said senior author Sandi Lam, MD, MBA, Division Head of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One study found a reduced risk for neural tube defects when folic acid was used before and during pregnancy. The ...

Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in the formation of neural tube defects, a problem commonly found in infants of pregnant women with diabetes. This is the first time the gene ...