: GAIN Hexagon Nutrition Jointly Host a Virtual Webinar on Fortifying the Supply Chain and Addressing Micronutrient Premix Challenges #IndiaNEWS #Business The Micronutrient Premix industry has played

GAIN Hexagon Nutrition Jointly Host a Virtual Webinar on Fortifying the Supply Chain and Addressing Micronutrient Premix Challenges #IndiaNEWS #Business
The Micronutrient Premix industry has played a key role in meeting the challenge of supplying premix to countries to help national fortification initiatives and ensuring that staple foods can be fortified. However, COVID-19 has threatened food production and international trade. Lockdown and quarantine measures to contain the virus spread, as well as their economic consequences, have rendered nutritious foods less available and affordable, causing global hunger and malnutrition to rise.
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This was stated by experts at Global Summit for Food Fortification organised by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in association with Hexagon Nutrition to address the challenges experienced by the premix suppliers and fortified food producers. Stakeholders & Industry Experts from Stern Vitamin, BASF, voices from Bangladesh and Mozambique participated.
Quoting the latest Lancet Series on Maternal & Child undernutrition, Dr. Saskia Osendarp, Micronutrient Forum highlighted the fact that an estimated 2 billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and this number is likely to grow amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Large-scale food fortification is a cost-effective and proven strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition. Lockdown & quarantine measures to mitigate the spread of the virus have made nutritious foods less affordable and less accessible thereby increasing global hunger & malnutrition. The fortification supply chain has also been severely affected by the pandemic.
Leo Schulte-Vennbur, Manager Food Fortification & Partnerships, SternVitamin/Muhlenchemie, said, Due to COVID measures, the supply chain has been severely affected. Having a broad supplier base is one thing that we as premix suppliers can do so that from one country to another the ingredients can be procured and the products can be supplied on time. The ingredient suppliers should be credible and reliable so that the fortified products of supreme quality can be manufactured at all times.
Claus Sondergaard, Global application specialist for Food Fortification, Technical Marketing, BASF stated that In the fortification world, there are many challenges & opportunities in the overall supply chain. Food fortification improves health, education, and productivity if the quality is right.
Vikram Kelkar, Group Managing Director, Hexagon Nutrition pinpointed the operational challenges of production, supply chain, logistics, payments & customer connect during the pandemic even after the known fact that premix suppliers fall into the essential goods category.
It is the responsibility of the premix supplier to maintain the long-term inventory of key ingredients and collaborate with dependable suppliers.

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