Decision details

The Cabinet noted the action taken through the Executive Member (Leisure, Culture and Communications), to :

(i)    Formally request to the Government that traditional mills be exempt from the requirement to fortify flour with folic acid on the grounds of cost and impracticality and the threat to the integrity, historic character and sustainability of local heritage buildings of importance;

(ii)   Clarify to the Government that if flour was the preferred vehicle for fortification, whether white flour or all flours, traditional mills producing less than 1,000 tonnes of flour per annum be exempt from the requirement to fortify and that any flours exempted from adding folic acid be clearly labelled; and

(iii)  Formally write to the Borough’s Member of Parliament asking for his support in seeking an exemption for small traditional mills should this proposal become law in the future as in the letter to the MP appended to the report.