8 Jul 2021

Move to add folic acid to bread welcomed

From Checkpoint, 6:09 pm on 8 July 2021

Folic acid will be added to bread in New Zealand to reduce serious conditions like spina bifida in babies.

The policy makes it compulsory for the B vitamin to be added to all non-organic bread-making wheat flour by mid-2023.

Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.