Regulatory monitoring of fortified foods: Identifying barriers and good practices

Global Health Science and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 446-461

  Luthringer, Corey L ^a   Rowe, Laura A ^b   Vossenaar, Marieke ^a   Garrett, Greg S ^a  

^a GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^b Project Healthy Children   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORTIFIED FOOD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

FOOD, FORTIFIED; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIVE VALUE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84981254840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2169575X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.9745/GHSP-D-15-00171     Document Type: Article

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