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Screening programs for the detection of phenylketonuria (PKU) in newborns are now so widespread and the benefits to society at large so generally accepted that any developed country without a PKU screening program might be regarded as not having achieved the best possible standard of preventive medical care.
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Veale, A.M.O. (1980). Screening for Phenylketonuria. In: Bickel, H., Guthrie, R., Hammersen, G. (eds) Neonatal Screening for Inborn Errors of Metabolism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67488-4_2
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