Folic acid – now in our bread – increases prostate cancer risk, new study finds

URO TODAY: Vitamin B(12) and (in cohort studies) folate are associated with increased prostate cancer risk, according to a new study. READ MORE>

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NZ government abandons plans to make folate compulsory in bread

STRAIGHT FURROW: Australia will go it alone next month when it begins the mandatory fortification of bread-making flour with synthetic folate, considered a possible prostate cancer risk by some researchers.

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Folic acid delay angers those who support adding it to NZ bread

JULY 19: TVNZ: Campaigners against adding folic acid to bread in NZ have drawn a counter-attack from folate supporters, who say the dangers – including prostate cancer risk – have been exaggerated.

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Prostate cancer suspect folic acid won’t be added to our bread after all

JULY 19: SUNDAY STAR-TIMES: The NZ government’s plan to put folic acid – a suspected prostate cancer risk – in the country’s bread will be abandoned at tomorrow’s meeting of Cabinet, the paper predicts.

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Otago scientist challenged on conference report that folic acid will be cleared of cancer link

JULY 16: DOMINION POST: A UK scientist and one from Norway have challenged Otago University professor Murray Skeaff’s report from a Prague conference that a study due out soon will clear folic acid of its potential links to prostate cancer.

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FOLIC ACID and PROSTATE CANCER: NZ government must tread carefully with mass medication, says newspaper

JULY 16: DOMINION POST: Any decision to mass-medicate a population cannot be taken lightly, says the paper in an editorial today.

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Australia lets NZ off the hook over joint rule to introduce folic acid to bread

JULY 15: DOMINION POST: New Zealand has effectively been given the green light to axe rules forcing bakers to add folic acid to bread from September.

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Leader of folic acid and prostate cancer risk study is top Oxford researcher

JULY 14: PROSTABLOG NZ: The UK scientist leading the research project that is about to report on folic acid risk factors and prostate cancer is Robert Clarke at Oxford University, says Otago University’s Professor Murray Skeaff.

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NZ food minister will seek review of prostate cancer risk in adding folic acid to bread

JULY 14: NZ HERALD: Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson says she will seek a review of the use of folic acid in bread – but not until a month after bakers have started adding it

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Leading NZ scientist says big new European study shows no prostate cancer risk from folic acid

JULY 14: TVNZ: There is no evidence of an increased cancer risk from plans for bakers in New Zealand and Australia bakers to fortify their bread with folic acid, a leading scientist says.

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