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Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity

Folic Acid Education and Distribution Program

For the 2012 Folic Acid Awareness Week January 8th-14th the Arizona Department of Health Services wants to remind you to take a multivitamin with folic acid everyday and eat foods fortified with folic acid as part of a healthy diet. For more information, visit the CDC's Folic Acid web page.

Folic Acid pills

Senate Bill 1573 created a program under the Department of Health Services to provide folic acid to low-income women of childbearing age through the local health departments. Participants in the program  receive a year supply of multivitamins (with 400 micrograms of folic acid) in addition to education on the link between folic acid and the prevention of serious birth defects.

For more information, visit our Folic Acid Program website, or contact Saidee White at 602-364-0216 or by email saidee.white@azdhs.gov.

Folic Acid Brochures

Note: Information provided in PDF files.