California leads push to add key vitamin to corn tortillas, aimed at reducing Latino birth defects

California leads push to add key vitamin to corn tortillas, aimed at reducing Latino birth defects

Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers might finally avoid the same pain. In January, California became the first state to require food makers to add folic acid, a crucial vitamin, to corn m...

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