Governments and academic institutions play vital roles in food fortification: iron as an example.
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Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary Public Health Nutrition / Volume 15 / Issue 10 / October 2012, pp 1791 1795 DOI: 10.1017/S1368980012003096, Published online: 27 June 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1368980012003096 How to cite this article: Philip WJ Harvey and Omar Dary (2012). Governments and academic institutions play vital roles in food fortification: iron as an example. Public Health Nutrition,15, pp 17911795 doi:10.1017/S1368980012003096 Request Permissions : Click here
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Invited Commentary Governments and academic institutions play vital roles in food fortification: iron as an example
Common sense dictates that we should learn from our failures. However, reporting ‘failure’ is more difficult than reporting ‘success’ and it is generally less rewarding, thus there are fewer opportunities to learn from failures than from successes. A study from Brazil in the current issue of this journal reports that iron fortification of flour had no impact on anaemia in children and it is lik...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Public health nutrition
دوره 15 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012