Quality Assurance/Quality Control/Monitoring Surveillance of Flour Fortification Programmes
When
04 April 2011 - 08 April 2011
Where
Region: Africa
Summary
The Quality Assurance and Quality Control training was designed to ensure that flour fortification programs are implemented correctly so that their public health impact is effective to help countries achieve their Millennium Development Goals targets. A toolkit for monitoring and surveillance of programmes in the short to medium term was under development to assist programme managers to measure the public health impact. The Monitoring and Surveillance (M&S) workshop served to ensure the usability of the toolkit for programme managers at country level. The regional event was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Participants
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Presentations
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Economic consequences of deficiencies and potential economic benefit of fortification -Dominic Haazen, World Bank, Tanzania
Consequences of micronutrient deficiencies in Africa: Why we have to act - Anu Narayan, Helen Keller International and UNICEF
Folic acid and neural tube defects: Why should we prevent who we love? What do we actually prevent? - Pierre Mertens, IF President, and Dr.Hamisi Shabani, Neurosurgeon MOI, Tanzania
Sodium iron EDTA update - Carel Wreesmann, Smarter Futures/Akzo-Nobel
Quality assurance principles and practices - Philip Randall
Chemical assays quality control tests theory for iron, vitamin A, and folic acid - Philip Randall
National food control systems: Opportunities and constraints that affect national food control systems effectiveness - Philip Randall
National Food Control systems: WHO Consensus Statement on Wheat and Maize Flour Fortification (WHO/FAO/UNICEF/GAIN) - Carol Tom, AED Philip Makhumula, ECSA
Baking trial reports Wheat flour fortified to WHO consensus levels - Philip Randall
Country Presentations: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Monitoring and Surveillance
Introduction to the toolkit for monitoring of programme impact - Anna Verster and Abe Parvanta
A purposive and convenience sampling approach worksheet - Anna Verster and Abe Parvanta
Toolkit review - participant working groups. Report on their findings and recommendations for improvement - Ethiopia, Kenya and Swaziland Indicators, Kenya and Swaziland report, Malawi, Mozambique Indicators, Mozambique report, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Additional Resources:
General Guidelines on Sampling
CODEX Methods of Analysis and Sampling
Micronutrients and Health Nutriview edition
CODEX Standard for Wheat Flour