Thinking regionally about industrial food fortification
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Globally 86 countries have legislation to mandate fortification of at least one industrially milled cereal grain. Different fortification requirements between nations may create some practical difficulties for intercountry trade. Nations in the same region, with similar public health nutrition problems and food cultures, may benefit from finding a common position on fortification policy and regulation that could be uniformly adopted.
Regional industrial food fortification programmes have been implemented to standardize compliance and procedures of food fortification programmes. Regional fortification harmonization calls for interventions at both the regional and country levels that will strengthen the institutional capacity of the public as well as the private sector to implement fortification programmes in a sustained way. A harmonized food fortification is also expected to impact intra-regional trade by creating a
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