Food Fortification

Featured Publications 

• Establishing Safe and Potentially Efficacious Fortification Contents for Folic Acid and Vitamin B12
  Omar Dary. Food and Nutrition Bulletin (2008).
   
• How Can Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies be Reduced? Implementing Proven Interventions at Scale
  Omar Dar, Tina Sanghvi, Robin Houston. Food and Nutrition Bulletin (2007).
   
• The Importance and Limitations of Food Fortification for the Management of Nutritional Anemia
  Omar Dary. Sight and Life Nutritional Anemia Guidebook (2007).
   
• Wheat Flour Fortification is Unlikely to Benefit the Neediest in Guatemala
  Dary, Imhoff-Kunsch, Flores, and Martorell. The Journal of Nutrition (2007).
   
• Food Fortification as a Public Health Strategy
  Omar Dary. Sight and Life Magazine (2009).
   
• Household Income Expenditure Surveys - A Tool for Accelerating the Development of Evidence-based Fortification Programs
  John L. Fiedler, Marc-Francois Smitz, Olivier Dupriez, Jed Friedman. Food and Nutrition Bulletin (2008).

• Food Control Manuals
  ECSA - HC (2007).

• Rice Fortification in Developing Countries: A Critical Review of the Technical and Economic Feasibility (PDF)
  A2Z and IFT (2008).
   
• Monitoring and Evaluating Food Fortification Programs: General Overview (PDF)
  A2Z Project (2006).
   
• Guidelines on Food Fortification with Micronutrients (external link, PDF)
  WHO and FAO (2006).
   
• The Food Fortification Formulator: Frequently Asked Questions
  A2Z Project, (2008).
   
• The Food Fortification Formulator: Technical Determination of Fortification Levels and Standards for Mass Fortification (PDF)
  A2Z Project, Omar Dary and Michael Hainsworth (2008).

  The tools for the calculation of the fortification of various foods with micronutrients were developed by Dr. Omar Dary, A2Z/AED and are available below. To access each spreadsheet, click on the following widely consumed food:

Country Programs

• Uganda - Ministry of Health Food Fortification Program
  A2Z Project (2007).