Promoting Folic Acid Awareness

The Department of Health¹s folic acid awareness campaign got underway recently to highlight how women planning a pregnancy should take a supplement before and after conception.

The campaign comes as recent research, published in the British Medical Journal, revealed that very few women planning a pregnancy take enough folic acid at the right time to make it effective.

Mother Sonia Reains, whose son Dylan has spina bifida and Sir Nicholas Wald, a long-time supporter of the flour fortification campaign, kindly agreed to be interviewed, answering the most frequently asked questions about folic acid.