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Food Fortification: The Advantages, Disadvantages and Lessons from Sight and Life Programs

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NUTRIENTS
卷 13, 期 4, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13041118

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fortification; micronutrients; micronutrient deficiencies; large-scale food fortification; biofortification; point-of-use fortification; micronutrient supplements; partnerships

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Food fortification is a cost-effective strategy that helps reduce micronutrient deficiencies and improve social and economic benefits. Despite ongoing debates globally and in some countries, successful food fortification programs require partnerships that include the public, private sector, and other stakeholders to address challenges effectively.
Deficiencies in one or more micronutrients such as iron, zinc, and vitamin A are widespread in low- and middle-income countries and compromise the physical and cognitive capacity of millions of people. Food fortification is a cost-effective strategy with demonstrated health, economic and social benefits. Despite ongoing debates globally and in some countries regarding the performance and safety of food fortification, the practice offers significant benefits across each of the main vehicles for food fortification (large-scale food fortification, biofortification and point-of-use or home fortification) ranging from reducing the prevalence of nutritional deficiencies and economic benefits to societies and economies. Using Sight and Life's global and national experiences in implementing food fortification efforts, we demonstrate how different programs in LMICs have successfully addressed challenges with food fortification and in doing so, find that these efforts are most successful when partnerships are formed that include the public and private sector as well as other parties that can provide support in key areas such as advocacy, management, capacity building, implementation and regulatory monitoring.

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