BARUCH HA-SHEM: In the seventies, we were taught obstetrics and gynecology by Prof.Plate in Utrecht.[ on of the best teachers I ever had! ] The article I am sending you now is from 1999 where the early history of folic acid is described.[1965]Since the end of my study[if I am not fancying], I prescribed folic acid to women in the fertility age and certainly when I started working in Israel in 1979 [I am nearly sure that this was because of the teaching of Prof Plate who must have read the articles of Hibbard

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00016346509155874 Hibbard

It is unbelievable that so many children were born with a MUM [light to severe deformations] just because doctors started so much later to hear about folic acid.

Until now homocysteine is mostly ignored by most physicians and the kupot don’t have it on their computer screen.

The article is in Dutch but maybe Google translation can help a bit.

For the Dutchreaders:https://anderetijden.nl/aflevering/485/De-bevallinghttps://www.ntvg.nl/artikelen/memoriam-profdr-wp-plate
The picture attachment]: Prof Plate in the middle 

https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/1637/48/92/0 Prof Plate

Now a day folate [in various forms] is preferred by many instead of folic acid for reasons I will write about.[a genetic issue] It is not so sure that this Tora me Sinai![even if it is heavily debated] but it is safe to take folate and sometimes there maybe indeed a problem with folic acid [even if I am sure that this has been tremendous exaggerated]