PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Herbert, Victor
TI  - Folate Supplements Should Be Appropriately Labeled to Protect Consumers
DP  - 1994 Apr 01
TA  - Pediatrics
PG  - 694--695
VI  - 93
IP  - 4
4099  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/93/4/694.2.short
4100  - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/93/4/694.2.full
SO  - Pediatrics1994 Apr 01; 93
AB  - Caveats are needed regarding the Academy of Pediatrics policy statement1 (in the September issue of Pediatrics) advising all women capable of becoming pregnant to take a daily over-the-counter multivitamin containing 0.4 mg of folic acid to reduce the frequency of neural tube defect (NTD) babies. I provided similar advice in my 1992 paper, "Folate and Neural Tube Defects".2 However, in that paper I discussed important caveats. I repeated and extended those caveats at the August 12, 1993, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) meeting on monitoring the effects of folate supplementation.