Food fortification : the evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food /

Lawrence, Mark

Food fortification : the evidence, ethics, and politics of adding nutrients to food / by Mark Lawrence. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. The evidential, ethical, and political underpinnings of food fortification. Food fortification evidence and ethics -- Food fortification politics: the actors, activities, and agendas -- Investigating food fortification -- part 2. The case studies. Case study 1: Universal salt iodisation -- Case study 2: Mandatory flour fortification with folic acid -- Case study 3: Mandatory milk fortification with vitamin D -- part 3. Insights from the past and present, and a view to the future. Insights for food fortification and public health -- A view to the future.

'Food Fortification' critically analyses mandatory food fortification as a technology for protecting and promoting public health through presenting the findings from research investigation into three topical case studies.



9780191748806 9780191663406


Food additives.
Food additives--Health aspects.
Enriched foods.
Iodized salt--Therapeutic use.
Endemic goiter--Prevention.
Endemic goiter--Nutritional aspects.
Neural tube--Abnormalities--Nutritional aspects.
Folic acid in human nutrition.
Vitamin D deficiency--Prevention.
Nutrition.
Food Additives--adverse effects
Food, Fortified
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
food additives.
food fortification.


Electronic Books.

TX553 / .F663 2013