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Fortification
Food systems often fail to sufficiently deliver foods rich in essential vitamins and minerals and the resulting micronutrient deficiencies affect approximately 2 billion people around the world. Potential solutions include adding vitamins and/or minerals during food processing (Large Scale Food Fortification, or “industrial fortification”) and the promotion of nutrient-enriched crop varieties (“biofortification”). Both approaches have demonstrably led to better health outcomes such as reductions in birth defects, blindness, and anaemia.