Folic acid meeting
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention schedules on Aug. 11 public meeting to gather input on establishing a surveillance program to "monitor possible adverse effects of increased folate consumption, with emphasis on the possibilities for complicating the diagnosis of pernicious anemia and other vitamin B[12] deficiencies," CDC announced in a July 27 Federal Register notice. The surveillance program is in response to an October 1992 PHS recommendation that women of childbearing age should consume 400 mcgs of folic acid daily to reduce their risk of conceiving a child with neural tube defects, an idea endorsed by FDA's Folic Acid Subcommittee ("The Tan Sheet" April 19, p. 3). The meeting will convene at 8:30 a.m. in Auditorium B of CDC headquarters in Atlanta.