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What Type of Salt Should You Buy? Rethinking 1924 Food Fortification Policy in 2024

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Most recently, after folic acid (vitamin B9) was found to prevent neural tube defects in growing fetuses, the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that all women of reproductive age get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid per day. Jessica Samuels is a third-year dual degree law and public health student (J.D./MPH

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

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Such a provision could prevent the public from paying twice for publicly-funded medical products—first through their taxes subsidizing government funded research and development, and second to procure the product in an inflated U.S. Moreover, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index increased by 374% from 1995 to 2000. In 1989, the U.S.