by
Milan Shah, Henry Simon Milling
As supplier of cereal-based foods products, flour millers have a responsibility to help feeding the world in healthy and enriched ways. In addition, they can have a role in prevention of chronic diseases such as iron deficiency anemia and birth deficits.
Despite this, according to the Food Fortification Initiative currently globally only 82 countries have legislation to mandate fortification of at least one industrially milled cereal grain, while there are about 195 countries in the world today. In addition, eight countries fortify more than half of their industrially milled wheat flour through voluntary efforts and these countries include Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Lesotho, Namibia, Çatar, Swaziland, and the United Arab Emirates.
Most of these countries mandate fortification of wheat and maize flour with iron and folic acid. Very recently, The National Fortification Alliance of Pakistan (NFA) is partnering with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the government of Australia to launch a pilot project to fight malnutrition by fortifying wheat flour in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC; Iron deficiency anemia is the most widespread nutritional deficiency in the world and has important consequences for child development and enormous economic costs.
Likewise, according to WHO, CDC and the International Clearing House for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR), neural tube defects are among the most common structural congenital anomalies worldwide, with an estimated 300,000 cases-per-year.
Obviously, the best way of preventing micronutrient malnutrition is to ensure consumption of a balanced diet that is adequate in every nutrient. Unfortunately, this is far from being achievable everywhere since it requires universal access to adequate food and appropriate dietary habits.
From this standpoint, food fortification has the dual advantage of being able to deliver nutrients to large segments of the population without requiring radical changes in food consumption patterns.
Read more HERE.
As supplier of cereal-based foods products, flour millers have a responsibility to help feeding the world in healthy and enriched ways. In addition, they can have a role in prevention of chronic diseases such as iron deficiency anemia and birth deficits.
Despite this, according to the Food Fortification Initiative currently globally only 82 countries have legislation to mandate fortification of at least one industrially milled cereal grain, while there are about 195 countries in the world today. In addition, eight countries fortify more than half of their industrially milled wheat flour through voluntary efforts and these countries include Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Lesotho, Namibia, Çatar, Swaziland, and the United Arab Emirates.
Most of these countries mandate fortification of wheat and maize flour with iron and folic acid. Very recently, The National Fortification Alliance of Pakistan (NFA) is partnering with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and the government of Australia to launch a pilot project to fight malnutrition by fortifying wheat flour in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC; Iron deficiency anemia is the most widespread nutritional deficiency in the world and has important consequences for child development and enormous economic costs.
Likewise, according to WHO, CDC and the International Clearing House for Birth Defects Surveillance and Research (ICBDSR), neural tube defects are among the most common structural congenital anomalies worldwide, with an estimated 300,000 cases-per-year.
Obviously, the best way of preventing micronutrient malnutrition is to ensure consumption of a balanced diet that is adequate in every nutrient. Unfortunately, this is far from being achievable everywhere since it requires universal access to adequate food and appropriate dietary habits.
From this standpoint, food fortification has the dual advantage of being able to deliver nutrients to large segments of the population without requiring radical changes in food consumption patterns.
Read more HERE.
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