Category: Fortification Standards

The publication and public announcement of Malawi’s Gazette means that fortification standards are mandatory for wheat and maize flour, cooking oil, and sugar throughout the country. Bureau of Standard and…

Savonor, Burundi’s largest cooking oil facility announced at the end of March that it would begin fortification before the legislative decree is signed. PHC is thrilled by Savonor’s decision, which…

Despite the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Liberia’s fortification program has made impressive strides in the past few months, thanks to our hard-working partners on the ground. Despite the burden…

July 2014 marks the end of Liberia’s nine month grace period for local industries and importers to comply with the nation’s adopted food fortification standards. To ensure compliance, Liberia’s first…

PHC is pleased to announce that this week Liberia published its revised food fortification standards, making the import and production of fortified food products (including wheat flour, cooking oil, sugar,…

This week, Project Healthy Children had what we all agree was the most significant day in our history. On July 3, 2013, the Rwandan Ministry of Trade and Industry officially…

National fortification was officially launched in Tanzania on May 16th, 2013. We had the privilege to finally present Project Healthy Children’s small-scale fortification device to His Excellency, Dr. Jakaya Kikwete,…

Rwanda’s national fortification program hit a significant milestone this week. The Director General of the Rwanda Bureau of Standards, Mark Cyubahiro Bagabe, expressed optimism that food fortification will not only…