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Fortification Will Improve Maternal And Child Health, Says GAIN

By Daniel Anazia
03 October 2015   |   4:21 am
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), an organisation with a focus on eradicating malnutrition across the world has described the new food fortification standards for flour and their products launched by the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) as a panacea to the country’s maternal newborn and child health challenges.     Speaking on behalf of Dr…

motherGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), an organisation with a focus on eradicating malnutrition across the world has described the new food fortification standards for flour and their products launched by the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) as a panacea to the country’s maternal newborn and child health challenges.
   
Speaking on behalf of Dr Francis Aminu, Country Manager, GAIN Nigeria, at the formal launch of the fortification guidelines in Lagos on Tuesday, Uduak Igbeka, an associate of the company said the new standards have effectively reviewed the levels of folic acid, zinc and vitamin A inclusion in flour and flour products to meet acceptable international standard.
   
According to Aminu, this new development will help to reduce the worrisome trend of iron-deficiency anaemia in millions of under-five children in Nigeria, stressing that the inclusion of folic acid in micronutrients premix will help to improve maternal and newborn health issues by reducing the problem of birth defects in Nigeria.

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