Objectives: Home fortification is an innovative way to improve the diet with essential nutrients for targeted vulnerable groups who have higher requirements or do not benefit from other micronutrient interventions. As a relatively new program, there is a tremendous need for techn...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20995
Objectives: Inadequate dietary iodine is the main cause of preventable brain damage, posing a serious threat to intellectual development and productivity throughout the world. Salt iodization is the primary strategy for preventing and eliminating iodine deficiencies, and 76% of h...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21151
Kevin Sullivan, Juan Pena-Rosa, Arnold Timmer, Luz De-Regil, Tiffany Gust, Parmi Suchdev, Mary Serdula, Ralph Whitehead, Maria Jefferds, Katherine Tripp, Carine Mapango & Jalal Chowdhury·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: An important component of public health nutrition programs is the periodic assessment of vitamin and mineral nutritional status and coverage of micronutrient interventions. Performing high quality cross-sectional surveys can be enhanced by the availability of guidanc...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21025
Objectives: The ICCIDD/GN Iodine Task Force was established in response to changing environment and program maturity of salt iodization programs worldwide. It aims to improve the evidence and thus the quality and effectiveness of iodine nutrition programs to help update program g...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21239
Objectives: Tremendous progress has been made toward achieving universal salt iodization (USI). Nonetheless, in some countries USI's momentum has stalled. UNICEF and GAIN have created a Partnership, under Gates Foundation funding, to revitalize and innovate for reaching the "las...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21321
Objectives: Although monitoring should be an integral part of any fortification program, little is publicly known about the design, implementation, and results of flour fortification monitoring systems. The objectives are to assess the monitoring systems in three countries includ...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21026
Objectives: The main target groups of iodine programs are pregnant women (PW) and non-pregnant women of reproductive age (NPW), yet surveys frequently focus on school age children (SAC). It is unclear whether median urinary iodine concentration (mUIC) in SAC can be used as a surr...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21027
Objectives: Universal iodization of all edible salt (USI), including household and food industry salt, is the most cost-effective intervention to improve dietary iodine intake. The main metric to track USI programs is the proportion of households consuming adequately iodized salt...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21312
Saskia De Pee, Rafael Flores-Ayala, Joris Van Hees, Maria Elena Jefferds, Laura Irizarry, Klaus Kraemer, Eva Monterrosa & Arnold Timmer·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2013
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7804