Fortified bread to help prevent spina bifida

Bread could be fortified with folic acid to give Irish babies a better chance of being born without spina bifida.

Bread could be fortified with folic acid to give Irish babies a better chance of being born without spina bifida.

Ireland has one of the highest rates of the condition in the world, with one in 1,000 newborns suffering from incomplete development of the spinal cord.

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