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Best Before Date OR Best Quality Before Date

  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Demand-side
  • Supply-side
The date which signifies the end of the period, under any stated storage conditions, during which the unopened product will remain fully marketable an...
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Bill

  • Law, policy, and regulation
  • Fortification
  • Legal document
A bill is a document introduced in the legislature that serves the purpose of either amending primary texts or seeks to create a new primary text. It ...
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Bioavailability

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Food vehicle
The portion of a micronutrient that can be digested, absorbed, and used for normal functions in the human body. For example, iron can be absorbed from...
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Biomarker

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Biochemical
A biomarker of micronutrient status is a measure or indicator of exposure, status, or function; more specifically, a biomarker is defined as a measure...
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Calcium

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Biochemical
  • Diet
A fundamental nutrient that plays a central role in the skeleton. As well as for bone, calcium also has a wide range of other essential body functions...
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Child

  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • All micronutrient interventions
A child is any person under the age of 18.
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Civil law

  • Law, policy, and regulation
  • Legal system
Civil law developed from the legal tradition of ancient Rome, with reliance on codified legal instruments that contained the applicable rules on vario...
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Claim

  • Implementation
  • Fortification
Any representation which is printed, oral, audio or visual and states, suggests, or implies that a food has particular qualities relating to its origi...
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Coating (in rice fortification)

  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • Fortification
In rice fortification, coating is a technology to make fortified kernels through which rice kernels are coated with a fortificant premix plus ingredie...
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Cobalt

  • Assessment
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • All micronutrient interventions
  • Biochemical
  • Diet
Cobalt is required in the diet in minute amounts and a deficiency in humans is rare. However, cobalt toxicity is more common. Cobalt and cobalt compou...
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