Vitamin A deficiency remains a leading public health problem and to address the prevalent nutrient intake gaps it has been successfully used to fortify vegetable oils, margarine, cereal flours, sugars, infant formula and milk. These fortification programmes can only be sustainable if food producers continuously assure the produced food meets hte standards and regulatory monitoring or control conducted at production level, borders and retail stores ensures the compliance with food legislation.
Within our cooperation with GAIN (Global Alliance for improved nutrition) Intertek has developed a direct analysis of Vitamin A which is cost- and time-efficient and does not require lengthy sample preparation and suited to the reliable routine analysis.
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Food fortification programmes can only be successful and sustainable if food producers continuously assure the produced food meets the fortification standards, and regulatory monitoring or food control conducted at production level (external monitoring), borders (import monitoring), and retail stores (commercial monitoring) ensures all of the food supply complies with food legislation and standards (Allen et al. 2006; Luthringer et al. 2015; Rowe et al. 2018). Laboratory analysis plays an important role in measuring the micronutrient content and confirming the quality of fortified food. Only reliable and validated analytical data can serve as a sound basis to prove compliance with legal levels/standards and label declarations and recommend appropriate follow-up actions.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2021.1977854
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