Plenty of evidence on mandatory folate fortification [1]

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-82

  Bower, Carol ^a   de Klerk, Nicholas ^a   Milne, Elizabeth ^a   Bailey, Helen ^a   Ambrosini, Gina ^b   Hickling, Siobhan ^b   Geelhoed, Elizabeth ^b   Flicker, Leon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANEMIA; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEW ZEALAND; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RUBELLA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUSTRALIA; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FOLIC ACID; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS;

EID: 33244491502     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00091.x     Document Type: Letter

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