Talk:Food fortification

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[edit] Iron supplementation risks

I moved a recently added paragraph to the top of the article, because it seemed somewhat out-of-place where it was. We need citations for the claims that iron fortification is considered unethical by "many doctors" (see WP:Weasel), that most males over 35 suffer from iron overload (and some clarification, e.g. in which population group?), that it is more common and serious than hypoferremia and that excess iron exacerbates many conditions, e.g. myocardial infarct. I also removed the sentence about responsible doctors first testing a patient's blood serum level, as this is not precise enough, and possibly inaccurate: If you have appreciable amounts of iron in your serum, isn't that a bit of a problem in itself? --Slashme 16:45, 9 November 2007 (UTC)