BASF Podcast: Food Fortification - Using Vitamins to Counter Malnutrition

Ludwigshafen (ots) - In this podcast you will learn how food
fortification can help prevent children going blind.

According to UNICEF, 40 to 60 percent of children and young people
in developing nations are affected by a lack of vitamin A. This makes
it the most widespread form of malnutrition. Micro-encapsulated
vitamin A that is added to staple foods such as oil, sugar or flour
is a fundamental contribution to solving this problem.

BASF Corporate Communications started a regular bilingual Podcast
service in April 2007 to report on BASF's innovations and research
and development activities in an easy-to-understand, informative and
entertaining way.

Listen to the audio reportage with Dr. Andreas Blüthner (Global
Coordinator BASF Micronutrient Initiatives) and Dr. Lutz End
(Research "Formulation Technologies Nutrition" at BASF).

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More information:
Newsletter "Nutrition News" (Issue 1/2008) on Vitamin A
http://www.nutrition.basf.com/pdf/news/Nutrition/BASF%20Nutrition%20N
ews%201_2008_Vitamin%20A_050908.pdf

Food Fortification
http://www.food-fortification.com

BASF Nutrition Ingredients
http://www.nutrition.basf.com

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