Jubilation has come for people who've been campaigning for years for folic acid to be added to food.
The B vitamin will be compulsory in non-organic wheat flour from mid to late 2023, and is expected to prevent up to 240 birth defects over 30 years.
Flour millers will receive about 1.6 million dollars to buy and install the necessary equipment.
Lyall Thurston has been campaigning for folic acid in bread for 40 years, and told Mike Hosking he's absolutely thrilled.
“It’s a great day for babies yet to be born, but in particular it’s a major public health initiative, well done everyone.”
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