Pregnant women and those trying to conceive will still need folic acid and iodine supplements once bread is fortified with the nutrients later this year, experts recommend.The advice came as the food industry prepared to enrich bread with folic acid from 13 September, and with iodine from 9 October, in response to mandatory standards developed by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).Professor Creswell Eastman, chairman of the Australian Centre for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, said the addition of iodised salt to bread would be insufficient to prevent cases of iodine deficiency, which was common among school-aged children and particularly pregnant women.“Something I’m pushing very hard, because the measure is inadequate, is that all women of childbearing age, particularly those...
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