(Pardon the edits in progess. One fast food burger and cheese plus *bread* does have other than b9 vitality petrol, seemingly) I aim to empower those in the USFDA, who might have personal disagreement with mandatory folic acid fortification in the United States. As a minimum, federal regulations should change folic acid to optional. But that is not enough. I advocate that folic acid fortification be banned, and against regulation, to add to food in the United States. However, it is very difficult to make believable points in favor of that, which don't get quickly dismissed. The dismissals are due to many medical doctors having been rote memorization trained that folic acid is to be promoted, and that school teaching is not based on personal experience by those doctors. This is no critique of all medical doctors, and many doctors might agree that such does happen: very much rote "as taught" promulgated. The small reduction in fetus and newborn neural tube defects per year nationwide, from a very small amount of them per year to begin with, makes sense, but is not worth the price. Since 75% of the population of fetuses, by mere dominant gene genealogy, would handle folic acid well, with 3/4 of the remaining 25% handling it poorly, and 1/4 of that same remaining 25% handling folic acid barely at all, such that those minority fetuses born struggle, at a young age, with onset of major mental/brain disorders, unaware that the cause was and is the food lacing/fortification/enrichment of folic acid. I believe that the cost of folic acid fortification in the U.S. has been a 1996-1998 great increase in mental disorders. Concerning the born as soon stillborn, the cost unaccounted for has been a minority of fetuses born into mental disorders, due to folic acid pervading the groceries and restaurants, and even worse if folic acid supplements were taken by the mothers. That is the < 25% minority, but tremendously large compared to neural tube defect cases. (I recommend a dedicated study of cases of new diagnosis of major mental/brain disorders occurring between 1995 and 1998, to assess the effects of folic acid fortification in the U.S. The data should be available, but it has likely not been researched, collected, or analyzed. Folic acid fortification was declared in federal regulations to be mandatory if feasible by all food producers and restaurants, with a grandfather clause to have time to comply, no later than the first of January, 1998) I have self-compelling reason to conclude MTHFR differences from the majority are due to the natural recessive genes of double MTHFR, at 25% mixed twice (like both blue eyed and blond haired, in brain genes), thus among 6.25% of the U.S. population. The theory that seemed to change the March 5th, 1995, decision by the then USFDA to modify the federal regulations to "must be fortified with folic acid," was that these genetic genotypes were "mutations" due to poor nutrition by parents before conception. Articles I've researched on the internet do admit to no scientific proof winning either way: natural recessive gene occurrences, or abnormal diet by parents causing mutations before conception. I personally know that my genetics displayed no mental/brain disorder symptoms until 1998, after the New Year's Day 1998 deadline for compliance. I also know from research that the USFDA of 1994 and early 1995 did (reportedly) recommend (I suppose to U.S. Congressional committees) that folic acid *not* be fortified, mandatorily as iron, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin were. It seems, to written accounts, that many times the USFDA did their legal job well, according to even the most recent legislative acts passed before or near 1994, to "defend" the populace against potentially dangerous additions of ingredients (to any major genealogy group, even recessive gene offspring in a great sized minority) by way of recommending firmly against adding folic acid to the mandate list. However, a sudden shift (maybe pushed by the then "self-styled moral majority" within congress, and in charge of relevant committees) seemed, to written accounts, to force the then USFDA to change official stance, and sneak into the food supply a way to force balanced diets on the populace, regardless of how they individually shopped and dined, and against personal citizen liberty. That argument has been made against folic acid fortification, but the dismissal is because opponents presume that folic acid does "nothing different than fruit/vegetable/nut/root/flower/crop folate and nothing different than that accumulated (from eating such) in animal meat." This has been challenged by some professionals as not true. Pharmaceutical companies would know that even melting and drying "naturally" is a chemical process, and presuming folic acid and folate are identical is a fallacy. The point that folic acid fortification is against "securing the blessings of liberty" (to choose food and not have B-9 vitamin laced into nearly all food and beverage offerings) to each citizen, does sadly get lost in the presumptions that it could do no harm, which is untrue. To my personal eating experience, only after trial and error, (after genetic test results advised me of unique brain genes), happening to eliminate most of the "gluten free, but folic acid added, to compensate" offerings, then my amount of unmetabolized folic acid apparently subsided enough that eating or not eating such became noticeable in discernable difference, to my after-dining sense of energy drain and brain fog inflammation. The idea is that previously just one meal or snack deviating from heavily folic acid laced, by being more so or less so laced, was not noticeable, as my diet was so very soaked with folic acid. Once I began isolating certain products, and going several meals with or without, did I then learn to mostly eat from the grocery stores' produce sections, plus fish steaks and grass-only fed beef steaks, steering clear of folic acid laced chicken meat and eggs (from mandated chicken feed ingredients) and also steering clear of pork meat from pigs heavily fed folic acid, before slaughter. I have learned, not by labels or articles, but from my improvements in formerly severe brain depression and sometimes psychosis from that depression, that were performed instead from eating results personally experienced, rather than just reading the status quo documentation. If the "before grocery store delivery, or before restaurant presentation at the table" recipe has room for lacing with folic acid, then food producers are expected by the honor system to add much folic acid. Produce sections' (yes) bananas, (not) peaches, (yes) apples, (not) pears, (not) mushrooms, (not) spinach, (not) arugula, (yes) melons, (yes) tomatoes, (not) potatoes, (not) unsalted in-shell peanuts, (yes) cod and (yes) tuna steaks, and (yes) grass-fed beef steaks, are my variety of food, if I can isolate the folic acid out, by peeling off the skin soaked in folic acid before grocery delivery. Some produce section offerings have tough skins resistant to the bathing in folic acid, such that no folic acid gets into the fruit and vegetable main matter. For beverages, Columbian coffee is very laced with folic acid, by the nation of Columbia, before export. (Columbia and about 20% of other nations followed the U.S.'s trend of 1996-1998 -- to attempt to force better health to all eating and botching the job by using man-made additive B-9 or folic acid toxic to many persons -- and no one seems able to well argue against that, as neural tube defects in infants were reduced by folic acid, per year, from an original less than approximately .000006% total of population, to around half of that.) Thailand coffee has much less folic acid, to my notice, but does not escape the import rules. I do not trust "gluten free" that adds "folic acid," as it drains energy and fogs brain cognition, the more it is eaten. Wheat and flour products were fine for me in college years of 1983-1987, and all food was fine for me as an engineer and then as an F-15E pilot in the Air Force, until my qualities of life began darkening in late 1996, later explained as to severity by diagnosis with Bipolar 1 in April of 1998, and then explained as to reason by studying articles and timelines, after learning of my genetics in March of 2017. Those MTHFR different genes, which were compatible with U.S. food before 1995-1998, were not much compatible afterward. This I confirmed personally by my eating experiences. After March of 2017 it was a very long road, fooled that "gluten free" might not have folic acid, but with it being the same or worse on folic acid. I aim to merely provide enough information with which to consider the many factors that must click together to counterpoint versus dismissal of these points as unfounded, so that U.S. Food and Drug personnel might present to the congressional committees the reasons why folic acid has done subtle, and difficult to measure/understand, damage to the mental/brain health of the United States. That's by way of forcibly protecting 75% of the population with an "extra" to natural folate, and by way of forcibly causing toxicity to the other 25%, based on genetics of dominant and recessive genes. Let's assist the "new USFDA" in banning folic acid fortification, a complete reversal from mandated folic acid fortification!