Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt

Unaware of any country on Earth where home fortification is illegal

One vitamin D supplier is looking into home fortification (as of June 2014)

A water-soluble packet of 400,000 IU of vitamin D might be added to various food stuffs: 

salt, sugar, fruit juice, jams, syrup, flour (wheat, rice, soy, . . ), vegetable oils, spices, egg replacer (64 eggs/package), ghee, etc
  Sales price for a single packet might be $1 for 4 man-months @ 3,500 IU per person

Several billion people on the globe do not take vitamin D because of one or more of the following reasons

1. Not afford it
   (even people just earning $1/day can afford $1 for 4 man-months of supplementation)
2. Not remember/ or be bothered to take it regularly
3. Uncomfortable or unable to swallow a capsule
   (especially true for the young and the very old)
   A capsule/packet with 10 mg of Vitamin D would solve all of those reasons

The powder would provide

• 4 months of vitamin D for a single adult,
• 1 month of vitamin D for 4 adults
• 1 month of vitamin D for 2 adults and 4 adolescents (based on weight)
• etc.

Note: a bottle of 12 packets taken in a single day, should not toxic

Note: A toxic reaction is NOT the same as deadly reaction
      A toxic reaction to vitamin D is treated by just stopping taking the vitamin D
      - the body clears out the excess vitamin D naturally over a period of weeks.
   Is there ANY food/drink which would not be toxic/deadly if you take 1,000 the daily amount? (5 million IU vs 4,000 IU)
   4,000 liters of water, 100 bottles of wine, 2 million calories of food, 1 kilogram of vitamin C, 500 aspirin tablets,

See also VitaminDWiki

• Vitamin D content of over 400 types of food
• Should NZ and Australia increase vitamin D fortification - June 2012
• Vitamin D can fortify a variety of food and drinks – even beer – March 2012
• Vitamin D fortification of foods, cosmetics, by mfg and at home (India) - Sept 2014
• Rationale and Plan for Vitamin D Food Fortification - July 2018
• A review of vitamin D fortification: Implications for nutrition programming in Southeast Asia - June 2013
  Veg. oil a good possibility - but this study did not fortify with enough vitamin D
   Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki.
• Add vitamin D to animal feed to fortify the resulting human food – Oct 2012
• All items in category Fortification with vitamin D 135 items
• Vitamin D review from Ireland
• Improved health due to vitamin D fortification in Finland
• A balanced diet is no longer enough – supplements needed - VitaminDWiki Oct 2012
  Vitamin D, Vitamin K, Magnesium, Omega-3
• All items in Veterinary and vitamin D 154 items
• Overview Veterinary and vitamin D
  Vitamin D costs the owner $1/cow for an entire year for a dose which is effectively 10,000 IU for a normal weight human.
• Can fortify food with 1000 IU of vitamin D - Italy, March 2013
• Overview Toxicity of vitamin D 2 million IU DAILY for a week is toxic = 14 million IU
• Typically takes a century for govts to fortify food with nutrients (like vitamin D) which has the folllowing chart

See also web

• FDA 2012 policies on food fortification attached at the bottom of this page
• List of vegetable oils Wikipedia
  Coconut, Corn, Cottonseed, Olive, Palm, Peanut, Rapeseed/Canola, Safflower, Sesame, Soybean, Sunflower
  Note some oils are much better than others to take with vitamin D
• Fortification Overview Project Health Children
  The Copenhagen Consensus estimates that every $1 spent on fortification results in $9 in benefits to the economy.

• Global Food Fortification May 2014 - some failures mentioned in abstract
  In Jordan, fortified wheat flour delivers sufficient iron to improve status in children but not in women, while vitamin A may behave in the inverse order.
  In Chile, wheat flour provides folic acid amounts equivalent to 400-μg folic acid per day to women of child-bearing age and therefore it explains the reduction of neural tube defects, but this practice places the population at large at risk of excessive intakes
• Home fortification Technical Advisory Group
• Multiple micronutrient powders - WHO 2011 attached at the bottom of this page

short url = http://is.gd/fortifyd