Health ministry partners to effect flour fortification

Shop attendants at the flour section of a Nairobi supermarket. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Ministry of Health, development partners and county governments are pooling together resources to ensure compliance in flour fortification as the State moves to tame malnutrition.

In 2012, Kenya passed the food fortification legislation making it mandatory for millers and processors of all packaged maize flour, wheat flour, and edible fats/oils to add specific vitamins and minerals to their products. However, only 40 percent have implemented this requirement.

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