Objectives: School-aged children in Haiti consume a diet primarily of rice and beans, with limited sources of micronutrient-rich foods. Edible forms of micronutrient supplements must be considered, since children may not be able to safely swallow pills or capsules, and taste pref...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20921
Sarah Hanieh, Tran Ha, Julie Simpson, Gerard Casey, Nguyen Khuong, Dang Thoang, Tran Thuy, Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Thach Tran, Tran Tuan, Terence Dwyer, Jane Fisher & Beverley-Ann Biggs·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Intermittent antenatal iron supplementation is an attractive alternative to daily dosing during pregnancy, however the impact of this strategy on infant outcomes remains unclear. We compared the effect of intermittent antenatal iron supplementation with daily iron sup...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20922
Objectives: To estimate the potential impact of national fortification of wheat flour and vegetable oil on inadequate intakes of vitamin A, zinc and iron in Ethiopian women of childbearing age. Methods: Nationally representative 24-hour dietary recall data were collected from chi...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20923
Objectives: The objective of this paper is to illustrate the importance of micronutrients and the consequences of not having enough amount of these nutrients in our diet. The paper also focuses on the innovative approach and the strategy being adopted by Crops For the Future Rese...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20925
Objectives: Due to rapid urbanization and the absence of an urban health policy until 2013, India's large and rapidly growing urban poor has very limited access to health and nutrition services. The Government of Madhya Pradesh sought assistance to systematically increase coverag...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20926
Objectives: The current vitamin A supplementation (VAS) program recording and reporting system in Indonesia faces inadequacies in terms of accuracy and completeness. This exercise was implemented to identify the bridge these gaps and inform the design of more accurate and efficie...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20927
Objectives: Although national coverage of VAS is high in Pakistan (>95%), large pockets of low coverage have been identified. A VAS coverage survey conducted by the Micronutrient Initiative (MI) in 2010 identified the reasons for low coverage as inadequate attention to VAS dur...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20928
Objectives: Small & medium scale salt processors are the main defaulters in the production of adequately and uniformly iodized salt. Monitoring of these processors by enforcement agencies is inadequate given the scale and geographic spread of the salt industry. The Government...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20929
Objectives: To determine the effect of Knapsack on quality of Salt iodization and USI program in Ethiopia. Methods: Samples of Iodized salt were collected in two different times with two different groups of experts and were tested and analysed indipendatly. The samples were colle...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20930
Objectives: Estimates from robust cross sectional surveys have brought into question the accuracy of HMIS of VAS in India, including potential errors as HMIS data is rolled up at various levels from health worker- to state-level, limiting the usefulness of these data for program...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20931
Objectives: Quality control is a process to detect and correct production default from specified standards during actual processing. In salt iodization units, iodized salt samples are collected and tested through iodometric titration, in a laboratory attached to the production un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20932
Objectives: Recognizing that low iron stores pre-conception continue during pregnancy, the government of Chhattisgarh and Micronutrient Initiative (MI) implemented weekly IFA supplementation (WIFS) program from July 2011 till May 2012 among school-going adolescent girls in classe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20933
Objectives: The main objectives of the study were to explore the feasibility of using Frontline health Workers (FLW) as a platform to deliver Multiple Micronutrient Powders (MMP) to the target population (children of 6-18 months) and to assess the acceptability of MMP among the c...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20934
Objectives: Fortification of soybean oil with retinyl palmitate is known to be an effective strategy to counteract vitamin A deficiency. However, stability of vitamin A in vegetable oils strongly depends on environmental factors, e.g. temperature, light, oxygen availability, oxid...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20935
Objectives: This study aimed to determine the levels of Zinc and Copper, in human-, cow- and tinned baby- milk and canned baby foods marketed in Morogoro Municipal and intake of these mineral elements by infants. Methods: Human milk was collected from 41 mothers at different post...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20936