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13.11.2009, 15:08

Members of an Armenian council set up to tackle a flour enrichment program met Wednesday in the premises of Armenian ministry of health to discuss a number of public health related questions, the ministry of health said in a statement posted on its offici

YEREVAN, November 12, /ARKA/. Members of an Armenian council set up to tackle a flour enrichment program met Wednesday in the premises of Armenian ministry of health to discuss a number of public health related questions, the ministry of health said in a statement posted on its official website.

The council was established by a prime minister’s decree on July 15, 2009. Health minister Harutyun Kushkian spoke about the importance of this issue for public health. He said for a final solution to this issue Armenian experts need to examine the international experience, which he said will be done in cooperation with Armenian parliament.

Leili Moshiri, head of UNICEF Armenia Office, presented the international experience of flour enrichment. She said flour enrichment is implemented in 54 countries, including the United States and Great Britain.

Enriched flour is flour with specific nutrients returned to it that have been lost while it was prepared. Enriching is necessary because the processing used to make white flour destroys some of these nutrients that originally were present in the whole grain.-0-

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