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is a comment to this posting. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">It
is misleading to say only that fortifying rice with iron has no effect
on anemia. That is rarely if ever the goal, keeping in mind that half or
more of anemia is usually not related to iron deficiency. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">More
relevant, but not mentioned by Dr. Karpagam, is that the Cochran review
found that iron fortified rice may reduce iron deficiency and increase
mean hemoglobin. In my experience, when it does not have an impact on
hemoglobin, it usually does have an impact on serum ferritin or storage
iron, which indicator is not reported-on in the Cochran review.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Many
countries now fortify wheat and/or maize with iron and folic acid (to
prevent neural tube defects). In a heavily rice eating population (which
includes many countries in LA and Africa and most of the southern areas
of Asia), this approach misses the opportunity offered by doing the
same with rice--which is rarely fortified today. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The
simpler approach for fortifying rice (cold extrusion) increases the
cost by about 3%, far less than normal market price fluctuations. Much
of the global donor community is instead mainly promoting the much more
costly and extremely complex hot extrusion method owned by the transnational DSM--who also
gave WFP one million dollars to use their technology. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>