Aileen Barnard #50swomen #fullrestitution

A typical folic acid supplement for a woman trying for a baby is 400 micrograms, as recommended by the NHS. Thanks to the government making folic acid in non-wholemeal flour mandatory, someone who eats: 🥣a bowl of Cheerios with milk and two slices of white toast for breakfast (55ug) 🥪sandwiches made with 4 slices of white bread for lunch (240ug) 🎂a slice of sponge cake for a mid-afternoon snack, (50ug) and 🍕half of a pizza and a slice of apple pie with custard for dinner (250 + 50 ug) will consume more than 600 micrograms of synthetic folic acid. And if they have a typical multivitamin that's another 400ug. It's not a great diet but the reality is plenty of people eat like this, and the government is not (yet) in charge of everyone's diet so cannot control or measure their folic acid intake. Let's imagine that person has cancer or a heart stent. What has happened here? The government has mandated the addition of a medicine acknowledged by its own NHS to be potentially harmful to that person, into food that they cannot easily avoid (white flour is everywhere, even many wholemeal breads), without telling them, without controlling the dose, without requiring food manufacturers to say that the food may be harmful. What is the difference between this and "unlawfully and maliciously administering to, or causing to be taken by, another person any poison or other destructive or noxious thing" under the poison / noxious-substance offences in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ? Can the government be challenged in the courts about this?