Public Health Nutrition Concentration

RUNNING HEAD: PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 0
Fortification of iodine in
Australia
February 26
2020

PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................1
Fortification standards................................................................................................................1
Risk factors for deficiency.........................................................................................................2
Food Standard Australian New Zealand Policy.........................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION 2
Introduction
Food and nutrition is an essential element for every person to live on this earth.
Government in every country come with certain food and nutrition policies in order to benefit
the people of the country so that they stay healthy and improve their well-being and
efficiency. In this discussion, Food Standard Australian New Zealand policy will be
highlighted and all the benefits and disadvantages related to it. FSANZ is an independent
legislative organization by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Act 1991 (Lockie &
McNaughton, 2013). This policy is to make the use of different components like vitamins and
minerals in the food. All these things will cover in further discussion.
Need for the nutrition
Malnutrition deficiencies are a major health problem across the nations. It is
universally the most significant hazardous factor for illness and death, with so many pregnant
women and children being negatively affected owing to it. Deficiencies of iron iodine and
vitamins A etc. can be controlled by regulation of the diet with high content of absorbable
micronutrients. Only with the addition of these nutrients in the diet of a person, can the
diseases associated with the deficiency of these nutrients, be controlled.
Food Standard Australian New Zealand Policy
The Food Standards Australia New Zealand Policy was devised in order to manage
and adjust the practice of ingredients such as processing aids, colourings, additives, vitamins
and minerals (Huynh, Condo, & Gibson, 2017). This policy was invented in order to provide
customers with the good quality of diet and diet quality is a vital food-trading prerequisite,
because diet consumers are vulnerable to any kind of contamination that may occur during
the industrial process. In order to avoid, this policy came.
The agreement between New Zealand and Australia concerning a joint food standard
system and it was adopted in order to have a joint system for the growth of food standards. In
addition, it came into force in 1995. The main aspect of this contract was to establish a
national approach to food parameter within Australia (Alford K, Alford, Keenihan, &
McGrail, 2012). There are three main functions of the food regulation system, which are
strategy improvement, standard-setting and application (Thomas, Seal, Hunt, & Mackerras,
2011).