May 10, 2020 Capacity Building of Small Millers — Training Manual Fortification of maize meal and bread flour with vitamins and minerals became mandatory in South Africa in October 2003
May 10, 2020 Best Practice Paper: Micronutrient Fortification (Iron and Salt Iodization) In the Copenhagen Consensus, 2008, a group of world‐renowned economists ranked food fortification with iron and iodine as a top public health intervention priority for countries using benefit‐cost...
Brief May 10, 2020 Advocacy Brief – The importance of folic acid food fortification to prevent neural tube defects This advocacy brief provides information regarding the importance of folic acid food fortification to prevent neural tube defects.
May 10, 2020 Advancing Neural Tube Defect Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries through Improved Folate Status in Women of Reproductive Age- Proceedings from the Technical Consultation: Folate Status in Women and Neural Tube Defect Prevention This document is a summary of findings and recommendations from the technical consultation entitled: “Folate Status in Women and Neural Tube Defect Prevention”.
May 10, 2020 Achieving Universal Salt Iodization: Lessons learned and Emerging Issues This paper presents a global overview of the progress in eliminating iodine deficiency disorders through universal salt iodization, including a review of lessons learned.
May 1, 2020 Iron-fortified lentils to improve iron (Fe) status among adolescent girls in Bangladesh - study protocol for a double-blind community-based randomized controlled trial This is a protocol of a study that aims to establish novel evidence of the efficacy of the consumption of iron-fortified lentils in improving the body iron status and thus cognitive performance in non
page April 7, 2020 Fortification Together with government, industry stakeholders and our partners, we work to increase policy coherence, scale up fortification, and improve program monitoring to improve access to fortified foods.
Blog Posts April 7, 2020 Ensuring children can continue to access life-saving vitamin A during the COVID-19 pandemic The Global Alliance for Vitamin A provided some guidance as to how governments can continue to distribute vitamin A safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News March 12, 2020 Nutrition International releases key results from nutrition programs in Ethiopia The results of Nutrition International’s programs in Ethiopia for the 2017-2018 year were presented at a dissemination and consultative workshop on March 12 in Addis Ababa.
Field Stories February 29, 2020 Changing behaviours for an anaemia-free pregnancy in Indonesia In the Manggarai Barat district of East Nusa Tenggara, midwife Rosina Flaviana Susianawati, is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that women in her region have a healthy pregnancy.
