Objectives: Wheat flour is a possible food vehicle for vitamin A fortification. Recently a new portable rapid test (iCheckTM FLUORO) has been available to measure vitamin A in various fortified food samples such as premix and flour. In this study the performance of the rapid test...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21137
Elise F. Talsma, Inge D. Brouwer, Hans Verhoef, Alice M. Mwangi, Erick Boy, Busie B. Maziya-Dixon, Michael B. Zimmermann & Alida Melse-Boonstra·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To measure the effect of daily consumption of provitamin A-biofortified cassava on vitamin A status in children aged 5-13 years. Methods: Mild-to-moderate vitamin A deficient children (n=342) were randomly allocated to groups receiving: 1) 375 g of white cassava and p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21116
Objectives: An increasing number of countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are adopting or in the process to adopt mandatory food fortification to overcome vitamin and mineral deficiencies. The objective of this study was to review regulatory monitoring s...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21063
Objectives: There are no data which provide information on the current prevalence of VAD at the national and regional levels in Ethiopia. The 2014 Ethiopia National Micronutrient Survey (ENMS) will provide these estimates among children 6-59 months old and non-pregnant women 15-4...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21278
Objectives: Since 2007, distribution of vitamin A supplementation (VAS) and deworming has been integrated with polio vaccination through twice-yearly National Immunization Days (NIDs) in Guinea. Although reported administrative coverage for VAS and deworming are consistently ≥90%...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21138
Adama Diouf, Nafissatou Ba Lo, Nicole Idohou-Dossou, Mariame Sy, Ampa Dogui Diatta, Amadou Tidiane Guiro, Banda Ndiaye & Salimata Wade·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Plasma zinc concentration (PZ) is influenced by many factors leading to over-estimate the real prevalence of zinc deficiency (ZD). This study aimed to assess changes in PZ in 12-59-months-old Senegalese boys and girls after adjusting for the overall known confounding...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21170
Objectives: This study aimed to understand the barriers to MNCHW attendance in order to develop recommendations for strengthening its social mobilization activities. Methods: In the states of Jigawa and Zamfara in northern Nigeria, 19 in-depth interviews were conducted with gover...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21064
Objectives: To evaluate the level of micronutrients, anti-nutritional factors and carotenoids of selected green leafy vegetables (GLVs) of wild and semi-wild origin, which are used by the Hamer and Konso communities (south Ethiopia). It is also aimed to study effect of processing...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21117
Objectives: Iodine deficiency disorder (IDD) is an important health problem in Thailand, especially in northern and north-eastern regions. Since the introduction of iodized salt in 1960s many control programs have been implemented judging the effectiveness at community level. Con...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21139
Objectives: In Ethiopia, there are no data which reflect the current prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) or iron deficiency anemia (IDA) at national or regional levels. The 2014 Ethiopia National Micronutrient Survey (ENMS) will estimate the national and regional prevalence of ID...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21279
Objectives: West Bengal - India's most densely populated state - is home to 8.3 million adolescent girls. Surveys indicate that 62 percent of adolescent girls were anemic, despite several sectoral programmes in place. To address this situation, the Government of West Bengal launc...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21065
Objectives: To develop and operationalize a survey tool that can be used by nutrition programmers to assess and classify coverage and consumption patterns in targeted (point-of-use) and large-scale (staple) fortification programs. Methods: We focused on developing a tool that is...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21171
Saskia Osendarp, Abdulaziz Adish, Banda Ndiaye, Aregash Samuel, Inge Brouwer, Dominique Roberfroid, Patrick Kolsteren & Lynnette Neufeld·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: The Micronutrient Initiative and academic partners have designed two program impact evaluations of Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) interventions in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. The programs include enhanced behavioral change interventions on IYCN, improved quali...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21140
Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the importance of social marketing in scaling-up the consumption of iron fortified rice (IFR) in the community. Methods: Seven municipalities and one city in Zambales were randomly grouped into sentinel and non-sentinel sites. In the sentin...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21280
Richa Pandey, Jee Hyun Rah, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Shraddha Dwivedi, Subhash Chandra Gupta, Dhirendra Kumar Srivastava, Sunil Kumar Garg & Victor M. Aguayo·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: Uttar Pradesh (UP) is a non-salt producing state in India. Most of the salt is imported and traded in 18 of the 75 districts in the state. In 2009, the household coverage of adequately iodized salt in UP was 43%. This presentation features the important initiative tak...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21066