The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurosurgery Professor and Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery Director Jeffrey Blount, M.D., MPH, recently served as a panelist during a webinar ...

Today, nearly half of children born in urban and a quarter of those born in rural Kenya are likely to suffer brain and spinal cord defects due to folate (Vitamin B9) deficiency. Moreover, about a ...

The report indicates that 52 percent of food processing industries, from the total of 368, have not implemented the mandatory food fortification requirements, which obligate producers to enrich wheat ...

The government has joined forces with milling stakeholders to increase access to high-quality, nutritious staple foods through fortification of cereals. The initiative that aims to address Kenya's ...

New research highlights how fortified foods and breastfeeding can curb malnutrition—but warns that success hinges on stronger policies, better monitoring, and global collaboration. In a recent review ...

NAFDAC says it has laboratories for analyses of micronutrients in foods. A statement by NAFDAC Resident Media Consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, in Abuja on Monday stated that the attention of the ...

When was the last time you checked a food label before taking a bite? If you’re like most people in West Africa, the answer might be rarely — or only when something looks suspicious. But here’s the ...

The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), has said, food fortification is a proven way to improve nutrition and health as it is a simple, cost-effective intervention that can be used to add essential ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers at the University of Cambridge assessed pre-fortification United Kingdom (UK) folate trends (2008-2019), ...

To address the growing hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition across the country, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Center (CISLAC) has called on the National Assembly to emplace necessary ...