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Food Fortification Initiative

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January 26, 2023

USAID Advancing Food Fortification to Reinforce Diets

The USAID Advancing Food Fortification to Reinforce Diets (AFFORD) activity puts the food industry at the centre of its work to make large-scale food fortification programs scalable and sustainable.

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June 7, 2022

Preventing birth defects, saving lives, and promoting health equity: an urgent call to action for universal mandatory food fortification with folic acid

We summarize scientific evidence and make a call to action for a resolution on universal mandatory folic acid fortification to accelerate the pace of spina bifida and anencephaly prevention globally.

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June 9, 2021

Food Fortification with Folic Acid Prevents Spina Bifida and Anencephaly: A Need for Paradigm Shift in Evidence Evaluation for Policy-Making

This publication provides an alternative paradigm to support evidence-based decision making for public health programs.

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April 14, 2021

Staple Food Fortification: A Commitment Guide for the UN Food Systems Summit and Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit

A commitment guide designed by the Global Fortification Technical Advisory Group to guide SMART fortification commitments at the 2021 Food Systems Summit and the Nutrition for Growth Summit.

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January 26, 2021

Reducing the Burden of Anemia and Neural Tube Defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis to Identify Countries with an Immediate Potential to Benefit from Large-Scale Mandatory Fortification of Wheat Flour and Rice

The paper identifies 18 low- and middle-income countries with the highest and most immediate potential for large-scale wheat flour and/or rice fortification.

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Brief

October 9, 2020

Call to Action: Strengthening large scale food fortification to be part of the COVID-19 response

This brief makes the case for large scale staple food fortification as a critically important tool to fight malnutrition in general, and even more so during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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May 14, 2020

Investing in the future: A united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies

This report reviews how each of these vital micronutrients affect human health.

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