Sentences with phrase «mandatory food fortification»

(3) Human exposure to folic acid was non-existent until its chemical synthesis in 1943, and was introduced as a mandatory food fortification in 1998.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES Fortification Comparisons between certain nutrients should take into account the mandatory food fortification programs for bread making (folate, thiamin and iodine), and edible oil spreads (Vitamin D).

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Fortification of staple and processed foods faces numerous challenges in implementation and must be mandatory and subsidized to reach those in need.

«Our study examined the effect of folic acid food fortification on each specific subtype of congenital heart disease based on the Canadian experience before and after food fortification was made mandatory in 1998,» said K.S. Joseph, M.D., Ph.D., the study's senior author and professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

(4) Food fortification was deemed mandatory due to overwhelming evidence for the protective effect of folic acid supplementation before conception and during early pregnancy on the development of neural tube defects (NTD) in newborns.