National Food Fortification Workshop Report, March 22-23 2017
Imprint
Colombo (Sri Lanka): WFP/Government of Sri Lanka, 2017.
Language Note
English
Description
35 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
WFPELR3441
Summary
Despite several evidence-based interventions, Sri Lanka continues to face a substantial challenge in combating and controlling micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs), particularly iron deficiency anaemia. It is largely prevalent among pregnant women, adolescent girls and young children, with over half the population are estimated to be affected by anaemia. Increasing the micronutrient density of food through fortification has great potential to improve the daily intake of essential vitamins and minerals for the general population and addressing widespread micronutrient deficiencies. To take stock of all the achievements and bottlenecks to regularize and determine the way forward for rice and wheat flour fortification, the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine (MoH) held a national workshop on food fortification on 22-23 March 2017. It was widely agreed by over 100 multi-sector participants that concrete actions are needed to realize the vision of taking food fortification at scale. The group work operated in three phases: the first phase was the identification of an appropriate delivery option; phase 2 consisted of the agreement on programme components necessary for selected delivery options; and phase 3 consisted of the identification of necessary actions for the implementation of selected delivery options by programme components.
