Folic acid fortification of wheat flour: Chile

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages

  Hertrampf, Eva ^a   Cortés, Fanny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Folic acid; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANENCEPHALUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAD; CHILE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENCEPHALOCELE; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FLOUR; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD FORTIFICATION; FOOD PROCESSING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCTION; SPINA BIFIDA; STILLBIRTH; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WHEAT FLOUR;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 3142673553     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2004.tb00074.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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