ADVOCACY MEASURES TO ATTAIN UNIVERSAL SALT IODIZATION AMONGST SMALL SCALE SALT PRODUCERS IN THREE DISTRICTS OF GUJARATA COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE FOR NUTRITION BREAKTHROUGH
Introduction: Salt is a low value, but an essential food commodity in our day to day life, without which no human can survive. It is also proven to be the best vehicle for micronutrient fortification due to its universal usage and its nature to adapt addition of micronutrients with more or less technical modifications. Some of the major micronutrients like iron, iodine and Vit.A are deficient in most of the population residing in the developing countries. Their deficiencies lead to anaemia, Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) and many other consequences. Thus salt remains a major risk, limiting the growth, development and active learning capacity of Indias children. Every second newborn in India is at risk of reduced learning capacity due to Iodine deficiency. Only 51％ of households are using iodized salt (NFHS-III). Gujarat being Indias largest salt producer (71％) has also its share of IDD problems.
Kejal Joshi Sirimavo Nair
Department of Foods and Nutrition,Faculty of Family and Community studies,Maharaja Sayajirao University,Vadodara- 390002,India
国际会议
9th International Symposium on Salt(第九届世界盐业大会)
北京
英文
1635-1636
2009-09-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）