Objectives: Recently, India has witnessed an increase in the number of public private partnerships (PPP) in various areas except nutrition. This paper explores barriers to private investment in improving nutrition outcomes in India, highlights success stories and recommends areas...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20987
Objectives: In India, 56% of adolescent girls are anemic. In response to this situation and building on 13 years of evidence-generation using a knowledge-centred framework (evidence, innovation, evaluation and replication), India's adolescent girls anemia control programme was un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20988
Objectives: Food development in the European Union (EU) is subject to changes, based on developments in food legislation or on changing demands in food composition for better nutrition and improved public health. Methods: The legal environment in Europe is laid down in Regulation...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20989
Objectives: Integrated Risk-Benefit Analysis (RBA) compares the risk of a situation to its related benefits and addresses the acceptability of the risk. Over the past years RBA in relation to food and food ingredients has gained attention. Food, and even the same food ingredient,...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20990
Objectives: Governmental research institutes in Europe/world are confronted with the problem that good scientific reports are produced directly for governmental sponsors and are published on an institute's website only. However, scientists like to publish their work in the scient...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20991
Objectives: To study the stability and content of inherent food iodine or iodine from iodized salt in commonly used Indian recipes. Methods: The study was carried out in 23 states in India covering 48 districts and the most commonly used recipes from each selected district were t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20992
Objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of serum concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP), transthyretin, retinol concentration measured by fluorometry and RBP:transthyretin molar ratio, either alone or in combination, to estimate the prevalence of vitamin A defic...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20993
Objectives: 93.4% of children aged 6-59 months old have malaria in Sikasso, Mali, and 83.5% have anemia. Our qualitative research sought to inform the home fortification with micronutrient powders (MNP) component of a malaria and anemia prevention project with seasonal malaria ch...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20994
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
Nilupa Gunaratna, Honorati Masanja, Sigilbert Mrema, Francis Levira, Donna Spiegelman, Ellen Hertzmark, Naomi Saronga, Kahema Irema, Mary Shuma, Ester Elisaria & Wafaie Fawzi·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Women's nutritional status during conception and early pregnancy can influence maternal and infant outcomes. This study examined the efficacy of pre-pregnancy supplementation with iron and multivitamins to reduce anemia prevalence during the periconceptional period am...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20996