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Mass Medication of People through our food supply

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Food & Drink, Health and Beauty, Home and Garden, Science & Technology,

In four months, bakers will be forced to begin putting a synthetic form of folic acid into almost every loaf made in New Zealand.

This ‘mass medication’ of the New Zealand public is not acceptable and must be stopped.

In the very least an option should be provided for those who do not wish (or need to) take a synthetic folic acid.

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Scrap It - No Folic Acid in Our Bread

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I think this is clearly something we don't want. The market research shows this. We don't want it. Don't do it. see details

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do the research, eat your grains, try not to jump on a bandwagon

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folic acid is added to return breads to the levels they would have had if the flour was not milled to near-nutritionless, that is why organic whole grain breads are excluded, they have not had the folic acid equivalent beaten out. If you don't lik... see details

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Jordan Carter

Jordan Carter from Wetware

11:14 AM, Tuesday 19 May 2009

"This is ridiculous. I'm glad the gov is reviewing the issue and I hope it is swiftly scraped."
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