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  • Implementation
  • Fortification
Any audio or visual publicity, representation or pronouncement made by means of any light, sound, smoke, gas, print, electronic media, internet or web...
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Allergen

  • Assessment
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Diet
  • Fortification
A known component of food which causes physiological reactions due to an immunological response (e.g. nuts and others identified in regulation relevan...
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Apparent intake.

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Demand-side
  • Diet
The approximated amount of a food (and its nutrients) that a consumer may ingest. It is calculated through indirect means such as national balance she...
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Assessor (for Accreditation Bodies)

  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Supply-side
The person assigned by an Accreditation Body to perform an assessment of a Certification Body.
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Audit

  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Supply-side
The systematic, independent, and documented examination (through observation, investigation, records review, discussions with employees of the audited...
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Audit (technical audit)

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Demand-side
Review of written quality assurance and quality control procedures and records at food processors. The audit also includes observation of the fortific...
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Average intake (AI)/ Mean intake

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Diet
Average intake of a particular nutrient or food for a group or population of individuals. Also defined as the average intake of a nutrient or food ove...
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Average requirement (AR)/ Mean requirement

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Diet
The level of a nutrient in the diet that meets the daily needs of half the people in a typical healthy population. The appropriate use for average req...
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Baby food

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • Diet
  • Dietary Diversification
  • Fortification
Food intended to fulfill the particular requirements of infants in good health while they are being weaned, and of young children in good health as a ...
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Balanced diet

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Diet
  • Dietary Diversification
A diet containing all essential (macro and micro) nutrients in optimum quantities and in appropriate proportions that meet the requirements
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