Madurai: In order to address the issue of anaemia among girls and women, the Madurai food safety department will promote the usage of double-fortified salt by coming up with awareness initiatives across the city, especially in women’s and co-education colleges.
Officials told this to TOI on the sidelines of an inter-college festival at the Lady Doak College (LDC) held on Friday, where an exclusive stall was put up to check for the fortification of salt and to create awareness among the participants about double-fortified salt.
While fortified salt has only iodine content, in double-fortified salt, iron is also added. Though this product is yet to be come to the market, officials said they would conduct enough awareness so that when double-fortified salts are made available in the shops, people would buy it.
“While the iodine deficiency has been majorly curbed, it is now important to ensure that the issue of anaemia is also addressed. We’re promoting double-fortified salt because iron-deficiency anaemia is quite prevalent,” the official said.
A source from the food safety department said that efforts were being taken to make double-fortified salt available in Madurai as soon as possible. “In market, it could be available in a year’s time,” the source said.
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