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