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Salt with iodine, iron may cost a little bit more [1]

In a bid to address PM Manmohan Singh's concern on the "unacceptably high" levels of malnutrition in the country, a meeting has been called on Tuesday to examine the possibility of promoting double fortification of salt with iron.

The doubly fortified salt has already been tried and tested both within the lab and in field trials.

According to NIN scientists, the cost of doubly fortifying sal

Publication Date: 
18/01/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
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Salt [3], Malnutrition [4], India [5], WHO [6], UNICEF [7], Health [8]
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