Mandatory food fortification with folic acid – Authors' reply

• Vijaya Kancherla,
• Lorenzo D Botto,
• Laura A Rowe,
• Nathan A Shlobin,
• Adrian Caceres,
• Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith,
• Kathrin Zimmerman,
• Jeffrey Blount,
• Zewdie Kibruyisfaw,
• Kemel A Ghotme,
• Santosh Karmarkar,
• Graham Fieggen,
• Sylvia Roozen,
• Godfrey P Oakley, Jr,
• Gail Rosseau,
• Robert J Berry

Affiliations

Vijaya Kancherla

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

Lorenzo D Botto

Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Laura A Rowe

Food Fortification Initiative, Atlanta, GA, USA

Nathan A Shlobin

Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Adrian Caceres

Department of Neurosurgery, National Children's Hospital of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Kathrin Zimmerman

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Jeffrey Blount

Department of Neurosurgery, Children's of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Zewdie Kibruyisfaw

Department of Neurosurgery, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kemel A Ghotme

Translational Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Sabana, Chia, Colombia; Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

Santosh Karmarkar

Department of Paediatric Surgery, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Graham Fieggen

Department of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Sylvia Roozen

International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, Brussels, Belgium

Godfrey P Oakley, Jr

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA

Gail Rosseau

Department of Neurosurgery, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

Robert J Berry

Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA