Objectives: Small & medium scale salt processors are the main defaulters in the production of adequately and uniformly iodized salt. Monitoring of these processors by enforcement agencies is inadequate given the scale and geographic spread of the salt industry. The Government...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20929
Objectives: To determine the effect of Knapsack on quality of Salt iodization and USI program in Ethiopia. Methods: Samples of Iodized salt were collected in two different times with two different groups of experts and were tested and analysed indipendatly. The samples were colle...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20930
Objectives: Estimates from robust cross sectional surveys have brought into question the accuracy of HMIS of VAS in India, including potential errors as HMIS data is rolled up at various levels from health worker- to state-level, limiting the usefulness of these data for program...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20931
Objectives: Quality control is a process to detect and correct production default from specified standards during actual processing. In salt iodization units, iodized salt samples are collected and tested through iodometric titration, in a laboratory attached to the production un...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20932
Objectives: Recognizing that low iron stores pre-conception continue during pregnancy, the government of Chhattisgarh and Micronutrient Initiative (MI) implemented weekly IFA supplementation (WIFS) program from July 2011 till May 2012 among school-going adolescent girls in classe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20933
Objectives: The main objectives of the study were to explore the feasibility of using Frontline health Workers (FLW) as a platform to deliver Multiple Micronutrient Powders (MMP) to the target population (children of 6-18 months) and to assess the acceptability of MMP among the c...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20934
Objectives: Fortification of soybean oil with retinyl palmitate is known to be an effective strategy to counteract vitamin A deficiency. However, stability of vitamin A in vegetable oils strongly depends on environmental factors, e.g. temperature, light, oxygen availability, oxid...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20935
Objectives: This study aimed to determine the levels of Zinc and Copper, in human-, cow- and tinned baby- milk and canned baby foods marketed in Morogoro Municipal and intake of these mineral elements by infants. Methods: Human milk was collected from 41 mothers at different post...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20936
Objectives: Various factors influence utilization and nutrient content of pulses including pre-harvest and postharvest practices. Pulses are usually exposed to postharvest practices (harvesting, cleaning, sorting, drying, de-hulling, processing). The effect of these practices on...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20937
Objectives: This study analyzes the potential for high-value peanut production, processing and marketing in Ghana, identifying opportunities for new investment and interventions to improve nutrition and livelihoods on a commercial scale. Methods: Our research combined an extensiv...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20938
Objectives: Optimum zinc nutrition is essential for adequate growth of young children. In Sri Lanka, available information on zinc deficiency is very limited. This study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of zinc deficiency among children between 6-59 months and to identify...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20939
Objectives: To describe the development process of home-fortification in complementary food (YingYangBao, YYB) for nutrition security of early children in China and evidence needed for policy-making. Methods: We summarized the effectiveness and experiences of YYB delivery in pilo...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20940
Objectives: The Survey Toolkit, developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and hosted by the Micronutrient Initiative, provides epidemiological support and guidance through standardized tools to countries for the assessment and monitoring of population micro...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20941
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess dietary intake of vitamin A and factors associated with it. Methods: A community-based cross sectional study with both quantitative and qualitative elements that involved in 556 children with the age of 12 to 59 months from Tula...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20828
Objectives: Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum L.) is the most widely grown type of millet, primarily in Africa and India. Our objective was to compare the capacities of two isolines of pearl millet (standard and Fe biofortified) to deliver iron (Fe) for hemoglobin (Hb) synthesis....
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20942