Members of FGC have been
voluntarily fortifying bread for many years now.
FGC
will support its members to meet the Government’s target
in 2023. It will be easier to achieve coverage by fortifying
bread flour rather than by batches of bread.
However,
we are disappointed the Minister for Food Safety refers to
FGC’s previous points as “spurious” and
“misinformation” when our information presented during
the debate some years ago came from some of the world’s
most authoritative sources and remains a matter of record on
our website.
FGC has always called for all the
risks and benefits to the whole population to be taken into