Skip Navigation LinksSkip Navigation Links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Safer Healthier People
Blue White
Blue White
bottom curve
CDC Home Search Health Topics A-Z spacer spacer
spacer
Blue curve MMWR spacer
spacer
spacer

Notice to Readers Conference on Prevention of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly

CDC is sponsoring a conference, "Time for Action: Prevention of Spina Bifida and Anencephaly," June 19-20, 1995, in Alexandria, Virginia. The purpose of the conference is to inform participants of activities under way and to solicit input into future activities leading to full implementation of the 1992 Public Health Service recommendation that all women capable of becoming pregnant consume 0.4 mg of folic acid daily to reduce the risk for a pregnancy affected by a neural tube defect. Additional information is available from CDC's Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center for Environmental Health, telephone (404) 488-7160.



Disclaimer   All MMWR HTML versions of articles are electronic conversions from ASCII text into HTML. This conversion may have resulted in character translation or format errors in the HTML version. Users should not rely on this HTML document, but are referred to the electronic PDF version and/or the original MMWR paper copy for the official text, figures, and tables. An original paper copy of this issue can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, DC 20402-9371; telephone: (202) 512-1800. Contact GPO for current prices.

**Questions or messages regarding errors in formatting should be addressed to mmwrq@cdc.gov.

Page converted: 09/19/98

HOME  |  ABOUT MMWR  |  MMWR SEARCH  |  DOWNLOADS  |  RSSCONTACT
POLICY  |  DISCLAIMER  |  ACCESSIBILITY

Safer, Healthier People

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd, MailStop E-90, Atlanta, GA 30333, U.S.A

USA.GovDHHS

Department of Health
and Human Services

This page last reviewed 5/2/01