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Meeting to be held on 21st January 2008
Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

1 Chair's introduction  
2 Discussion of papers by Cole et al (2007) and Mason et al (2007)  
3 Review of SACN recommendations for mandatory fortification

Primary research

Logan et al. Aspirin and folic acid for the prevention of recurrent colorectal adenomas. Gastroenterology. 2008;134(1):29-38.

Hubner RA et al. Thymidylate synthase polymorphisms, folate and B-vitamin intake, and risk of colorectal adenoma. Br J Cancer. 2007; 97(10):1449-56.

Letters/commentaries relating to study by Cole et al (2007)

Ulrich CM & Potter JD. Folate and cancer - timing is everything. JAMA. 2007;2408-9.

Chae & Hyun. Folic acid and prevention of colorectal adenomas. JAMA. 2007;298:1397.

Bayston et al. Folic acid fortification and cancer risk. Lancet. 2007;370.

Commentaries/editorials relating to paper by Mason et al (2007)

Kim YI. Folic acid fortification and supplementation - good for some but not so good for others. Nutrition Reviews. 2007;65:504-511.

Solomons NW. Food fortification with folic acid: has the other shoe dropped? Nutrition Reviews. 2007;65:512-515.

Rosenberg IH. Editor's comment. Nutrition Reviews. 2007;65:503.

General/review articles of folic acid and CRC risk

Kim YI. Folate and colorectal cancer: An evidence-based critical review. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2007;51:267-292.

Wald NJ & Oakley GP/Hubner et al. Should folic acid fortification be mandatory? BMJ. 2007;334:1252-1252-1253.

Unmetablised folic acid

Sweeney MR et al. Folic acid fortification and public health: Report on threshold doses above which unmetabolised folic acid appear in serum. BMC Public Health. 2007;7:41.

Wright AJ et al. Folic acid metabolism in human subjects revisited: potential implications for proposed mandatory folic acid fortification in the UK. Br J Nutr. 2007;98(4):667-75.

Powers HJ. Folic acid under scrutiny. Br J Nutr. 2007;98(4):665-666.		 SACN/09/00

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