Folic acid 400 mcg plus dietary folate for NTD prevention may be more than necessary.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
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400 MCG FOLIC ACID DAILY PLUS DIETARY FOLATE MAY BE MORE THAN NEEDED for the prevention of neural tube defects, James Mills, MD, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, indicated at a March 3-4 meeting of the Panel on Folate and Other B Vitamins of the Institute of Medicine's Food & Nutrition Board in Washington, D.C. "Four hundred micrograms folic acid, in addition to what you eat, is certainly going to be adequate" to prevent NTDs; "whether we need less than that is going to be the critical issue," Mills said.