Folic Acid

I do hope that the government consider this issue very seriously. They could be on a real sticky wicket if they go ahead with it. Folic Acid is classed as a drug. According to the British National Formulary, it should be given with caution in people with B12 deficiency as it can cause degeneration of the spinal cord in these people. It has not to be used in people with malignant disease. It interacts with the Epilepsy drug Phenytoin and can cause a plasma dilution of Phenytoin within the blood stream, therefore Phenytoin would be less effective at controlling fits.

Do the government wish to be sued by people experiencing increased epileptic fits due to unwanted folic acid supplementation???? If this was the USA, some lawyer would try it...
 
And so they should. Recently the EU (a pox on their MPs) was considering banning vitamin supplements....and I don't agree with that either. We are adults and capable of making rational decisions for ourselves....and we take the appropriate responsibility for our actions.

Mass medication is the thin end of the wedge...and I trust this government not one jot, the next thing they could be putting in our food stuff or water could be something far more sinister.
 
Mass medication is the thin end of the wedge...and I trust this government not one jot, the next thing they could be putting in our food stuff or water could be something far more sinister.
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I’ve been saying that all along Margaret Pilkington yet you still get some people agreeing to adding medicines to our food and water that will benefit the very few. You can bet your sweet life that in years to come when the public start to really rebel (and I don’t mean by noisy demonstrations) we will find tranquillisers in the water AND food.

Instead of clamping down on alcohol consumption and all the problems that, that brings the government extend the drinking hours. It wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that alcohol puddles the brain and prevents people from coherent thought, would it?

It wasn’t too long ago that some *!!* Minister wanted to implement a system where the bath/shower/hot tap water was not so hot that it could scald someone. What next? Central heating systems regulated to a standard temperature for all to prevent sensitive skinned people from burning themselves on the radiators?

This government driven by President (Dictator) Blair has taken one step too far down the ‘control the masses road’ and it is time that Joe and Josephine Public stood up to be counted.

The UKIP is rapidly becoming a viable alternative to the big three.
 
The more we sit back and let it happen the more the govenment of the day will try regarless of which party is in power. We only complain when there is a possibility it will happen not at the start when it is thrown to others to debate. Is the information held back because they dont want us to know or is it they know we cant be bothered keeping up with whats going on until its to late?
 
Yeah, okay, let's put anything in food the Government fancies. Too many strokes and heart attacks? - add a bit of Warfarin or Digoxin to the water supply. Never mind that people like me whose blood doesn't clot very well might die of haemorrhage. It might well benefit others. And it hasn't escaped me that this is the thin end - valium for the masses, anyone? After all, we live in a society prone to stress, it might do everybody some good to add a spot of diazepam to the drinking water. When we are all lying backwards, burbling at the sky, won't governing the country be easy!
 
"When we are all lying backwards, burbling at the sky, won't governing the country be easy!"

Are we not doing that already due to the govenments inability to goven driving us mad? :p
 
I think you could be right there Spuggie...cautions given for rape......muggers and petty criminals getting a slap on the wrist and perpetrators of domestic violence being let off if they show 'remorse' and promise to be good in the future....10 yearl olds put through the court process for name calling (possibly rascist...but name calling just the same) there is something very wrong with the judicial system of this country. No one seems to have any authority any more......and even some of the stories about those who are supposed to be upholding the law make your hair curl.
 
We are told often enough not give our prescribed medicine to someone else even if they have the same symptoms yet that very wise edict is being ignored by the powers that be by of all people the secretary of health.

I see that the Fluoride debate has gone quiet but the introduction of Fluoride in the water is still on the agenda.

I’m sure that I didn’t dream this, but I heard on the box the other day that this government has introduced 80 new laws to exercise more control over the public.
 
'A meeting of the Food Standards Agency this week is likely to sanction a 12-week consultation exercise, alongside consumer research.' - BBC News.
 
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