date:Jun 06, 2012
y decided for mandatory folic acid fortification in 2007 but two years later, just one month before the requirement was implemented, the government made a U-turn and instead recommended voluntary fortification.
A Folic Acid Working Group was established in 2009 by the minister for Food Safety to encourage voluntary fortification across New Zealands bakery sector.
This decision deferral, some say, was sparked by a US meta-analysis review that looked into folic acid links with prostate cancer as