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KNFFA

Finance  Policy and                    Product         Social
         Advocacy                      Delivery   Marketing and
                                                 Communication

         Monitoring and Evaluation               Figure 7. - Structure of
                                                 KNFFA functions

Food Fortification Regulation          Food, Drug and Chemical Substance
Mandatory Legislation for wheat flour  signed on 4th June 2012 and published
maize meal, fats and oils through the  in the Kenya Gazette supplement
amendment of the Regulations of the    number 62 on 15th June 2012.

    This regulation has been revised to legal notice number 157 of 24th July 2015
    states in part:-

        ‘Packaged wheat flour shall be fortified and conform to the food
        requirements specified’

        ‘Packaged dry Milled maize products shall be fortified and conform to the
        requirements specified’

        ‘Vegetable fats and oils shall be fortified with vitamin A in accordance with
        the Kenya Standard for edible fats and oil’

        ‘Labelling of fortified products shall be done in accordance with the relevant
        East Africa standards relating to nutrition’

As other countries continue to see the value of fortification of grains, legislation
is passed to make it mandatory. Figure 8 is a map of grain fortification legislation
around the world.

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