by Mauricio | Jul 9, 2024 | Allgemein, Blog, Food Fortification, News Block - Featured Homepage
Millers for Nutrition is an industry-led coalition that’s revolutionizing the approach to global nutrition. This coalition brings together industry partners, strategic stakeholders, and millers to tackle micronutrient deficiencies through the fortification of...
by Mauricio | Jul 8, 2024 | Allgemein, Blog, Food Fortification, News Block - Featured Homepage
A new study, published in the Food Analytical Methods, compared a portable device to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) in terms of quantification of vitamin A in both spiked and commercially fortified oils. Fortifying edible oil with vitamin A is a common...
by noli | Dec 21, 2023 | _Featured - Food Testing, Allgemein, Blog, Food Testing, News Block - Featured Homepage, Our News - Featured
A capacity reinforcement training workshop was recently held in Accra, Ghana, under the leadership of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Ghana Country Program and facilitated by QuImpact and BioAnalyt. The workshop aimed to enhance the understanding and implementation...
by Anacatarina | Sep 15, 2022 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety
“How can we work collaboratively across the food value chain, beginning with supplier input and other players, and have lasting and sustainable systems?” “What can we do to encourage the small-scale industry to participate in the fortification programs?” “What are the...
by Anacatarina | Aug 15, 2022 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification
August 2022 The ever-changing food consumption trends are obscuring the hitherto understanding of factors leading to malnutrition. Now, within the same country, neighborhood, or even household, different dietary habits and patterns are being observed. It is well...
by Corey Luthringer | Dec 1, 2019 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety, Food Testing
November 2019 BioAnalyt participated in the 2nd Annual AOAC Sub-Saharan Africa Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on the 5-8 November 2019. The meeting’s theme was around harmonizing testing standards as critical to free trade of safe food in Africa. The meeting...
by Corey Luthringer | Dec 1, 2019 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety, Food Testing
November 2019 Following from a Changing Markets study and campaign which found that very few of Mexico’s wheat and maize flours were being fortified according to standard, BioAnalyt and Changing Markets partnered to provide Mexico’s Food Control Agency,...
by Corey Luthringer | Nov 30, 2019 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety, Food Testing, In development
November 2019 A network of training hubs will support capacity strengthening efforts across food systems in Africa and beyond. HILTON, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 20 Nov 2019 – One-third of the global population suffers from some form of malnutrition. Whether it be...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Oct 10, 2018 | Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety, Food Testing
Fortification of oil, sugar, salt and wheat and maize flour is mandatory in Malawi. This means that food control authorities will have to ensure that industry is compliant with the fortification regulations and that there are appreciable levels of nutrients in staple...
by Anna Zhenchuk | May 11, 2018 | Biofortification, Food Fortification, Food Quality and Safety, Food Testing, Nutritional Status
In 31st Volume of the Sight and Life Magazine you can read about “The Power of Portable Micronutrient Testing” and how to strengthen food fortification programs through improved monitoring tools. There are numerous approaches to combat malnutrition, from...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog, Food Fortification, Food Testing
By Holly McKee, published on 16th February 2017 BioAnalyt partnered with DSM to develop a simple method for testing fortified rice Photo by Chema Photo on Unsplash As a staple food for more than 3 billion people, rice provides a good source of energy but is sadly...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Jul 14, 2017 | Food Fortification
Published on 14th July 2017 In efforts to reduce iron deficiency in populations, governments are increasingly choosing iron sodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (NaFeEDTA) as the form of iron to be added to wheat and maize flour (1). This form of iron is highly...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Dec 19, 2016 | Nutritional Status
By Holly Mckee, published on 19th December 2018 “The iCheck Fluoro is very field-friendly, allowing an immediate vitamin A determination in fresh milk.” Dr. Henri Dirren, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute The challenge Low birth weight...
by Anna Zhenchuk | May 13, 2016 | Food Fortification
Published on 13th May 2016 Over 95% of households in West Africa consume bouillon cubes on a daily basis It is estimated that vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects almost 150 million children worldwide, predominantly in developing countries. Fortification of staple foods...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Apr 1, 2016 | _Featured - Biofortification, Biofortification, Blog
By Holly McKee, published on 1st April 2016 Frozen cassava leaves used for analysis The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the University of Potsdam and the University of Ghana, Legon, with support from GIZ are collaborating on a project to scale...
