by sneha | Dec 23, 2024 | _Featured - Food Fortification, Allgemein, Blog, Food Fortification, News Block - Featured Homepage
The fortification of staple foods with micronutrients is a critical public health strategy to combat malnutrition. However, ensuring the quality of fortified foods remains a challenge in many regions. QuImpact, a non-profit technical service provider, partnered with...
by Anacatarina | Sep 23, 2022 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification
BioAnalyt founder and Managing Director, Professor Dr. Florian J. Schweigert, participated in the Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit held at the UN General Assembly earlier this week. Around 20 experts in the food and nutrition sector came together in person...
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 Anna Zhenchuk | Feb 25, 2019 | Allgemein, Blog, Company News, Food Fortification, Food Testing
More than a third of the global population are affected by iodine and iron deficiencies, and this poses a serious public health risk. For decades salt has been successfully fortified with iodine in many countries worldwide. Salt is an ideal food matrix for...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Oct 10, 2018 | Food Fortification
Malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies particularly remain prevalent in the Gambia. A survey by the National Demographic Household Survey in 2013 estimated that 24% of children under five years were stunted, 11.5% were wasted, and 72% had anemia. The same report...
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 | Aug 27, 2018 | Company News, Food Fortification
Maize is the most popular staple food in Tanzania. It is also an excellent vehicle to deliver vital micronutrients to vulnerable populations. Sanku has undertaken this challenge and is today providing fortification technology and support to over 100 maize millers in...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Jul 31, 2018 | Allgemein, Food Fortification
The TechnoServe Program, Strengthening African Processors of Fortified Foods (SAPFF) in collaboration with the African Milling School (AMS) will conduct a 2-day training on “Improving fortification efficiency of maize flour and wheat flour” on the 8th and 9th August,...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Jun 21, 2018 | Food Fortification
Study on the analytical capability and readiness of selected laboratories to analyze fortified food – a quick look into key learnings and recommendations By Dr. Anna Zhenchuk, published on 21st June 2018 In the past few years I attended numerous food fortification...
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 | Food Fortification
By Dr. Anna Zhenchuk, published on 19th December 2016 “Partnering with BioAnalyt made sense as we needed reliable and affordable data to assess the coverage and inform the development of our programs.” Greg Garrett, LSFF Director, GAIN Global Alliance for...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Oct 18, 2016 | Food Fortification
By Holly McKee, published on 18th October 2016 An interview with Mark Myatt and Grant Aaron There is a lot of buzz among food fortification stakeholders about the importance of assessing program coverage. What is coverage? And why is coverage important to achieving...
by Anna Zhenchuk | Jul 19, 2016 | Food Fortification
By Dr. Anna Zhenchuk, published on 19th July 2016 To ensure that food fortification (FF) is effective and that adequately fortified foods reach those that need them, industry needs to be monitored and supported by the government to ensure that micronutrients are added...
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...