Flour could be required to be fortified with folic acid to reduce birth defects in Ireland, under a proposal being considered ...

This article is authored by CK Mishra, former secretary, ministry of health and family welfare, Government of India.

Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have ...

By Chioma Obinna The Federal Government, food industry players, and nutrition stakeholders on Tuesday intensified efforts to ...

A comprehensive new systematic review published in The Journal of Nutrition provides the latest evidence that large-scale food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention for reducing global ...

Inadequate nutrition leading to growth failure is common among premature infants. Although fortified breast milk (breast milk plus commercially prepared fortifier) is the preferred feeding, nutrient ...

In 2011-2012, 21.9% of the total Indian population fell below the poverty line. Considering how populated India is, 21.9% encompasses a lot of people. In 2011-2012, 21.9% of the total Indian ...

Malnutrition is one of the major issues concerning the world population, particularly in developing countries. It accounts for an estimated one-third of childhood deaths. Most adults too are deprived ...

Geneva — Large-scale food fortification—adding essential vitamins and minerals to staple foods like flour, rice, oil, and salt—currently prevents approximately 7 billion nutrient gaps* worldwide each ...