4 year Project started Nov, 2013 http://www.odin-vitd.eu/
Cost: 8 million Euro
Two meetings and newsletters each year
Goals
Standard Vitamin D test
Food fortification
(supplements have not worked well to increase the vitamin D levels of the entire population)
Comment by VitaminDWiki: Impossible to fortify a food with enough for everyone in Europe
The average European is not a white, thin, young, non-smoking, healthy male
Perhaps 25% are in categories of people who are at high riks of being vitamin D deficient.
dark skinned
obese
elderly
shut-in
intestinal problems
pregnant,
smokers
recovering from major trauma/surgery
have a disease which consumes vitamin D
live in cloudy region or much farther from Equator than mainland Europe
wear excessive clothes,
etc.
A person belonging to a single high risk category will need 2X to 5X as much
And, a person can belong in multiple categories - often needing at least 4X as much
The problem with getting meaningful fortification (in rough numbers)
>3,500 IU needed by 90% of adults
>8,000 IU needed by about 25% of the adults
> 2,000 IU might cause problems in about 10% of the children (vitamin D needed is proportional to weight
>1,000 IU can cause problems for <1 % of the adults (Increasing/decreasing drug effectiveness, allergy to vitamin d, loo little Magnesium, etc)
Thus it is doubtful that even 1,000 IU will be recommended, an amount which might provide a little benefit to perhaps 20% of the population.
A possibility: provide 2 versions of several food products: with and without Vitamin D fortification.
Provide the public with an option, not a mandate
Give the public options they have now with milk and bread (some people do not consume lactose or gluten)
Given the extremely low cost of vitamin D, the fortification option would not have to be associated with extra cost.
See VitaminDWiki
All items in category Fortification of Vitamin D- Vitamin D: not one size, type, form, route for all - Jan 2022
- Fortification with Vitamin D works – 16 studies of Danish experience – July 2021
- 2400 IU of vitamin D needed to get most Northern adults above 20 ng – June 2020
- Vitamin D – food fortification around the world, types of microencapsulation – Feb 2020
- Vitamin D nanoemulsion etc. for fortification, pills, injections, topical and cancer – July 2019
- Vitamin D food fortification, Belgium considers 270 IU per kcal of milk or bread– June 2019
- Adding Iodine to salt added 11 percent to goiter states income (how much might vitamin D add) – July 2018
- Children no longer get much vitamin D from milk - fortify at home
- Skim fat milk provides 3% less vitamin D – May 2016
- Getting Vitamin D into your body
- Schizophrenia increased 40 percent for Spring births after Danes stopped vitamin D fortification – April 2014
- 5000 IU of vitamin D in daily bread resulted in 50 ng and improved quality of life– May 2014
- Typically takes a century for govts to fortify food with nutrients (like vitamin D)
- Germany does not fortify ANY food with vitamin D, is considering 1000 IU from bread – Nov 2013
- Type 1 diabetes starting to decrease in Finland, they started Vitamin D fortification in 2003 – July 2013
- How to get Vitamin D and cofactors without taking pills
- Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
- A balanced diet is no longer enough – supplements needed - VitaminDWiki Oct 2012
- Most people have major problems of milk as a source of vitamin D
Pages in BOTH Fortification and Europe
- 65% of UK govt. nutrition advisors are paid by food companies – BMJ Sept 2024
- Fortification of foods: 1200 IU Vitamin D daily is safe – Dec 2022
- Vitamin D fortification could eliminate 1 in 10 Cancer deaths in the EU – May 2022
- Vitamin D added to margarine reduced inflammatory bowel disease by 13 percent 30 years later – Nov 2019
- Vitamin D Deficiency in Europe- need at least 1000 IU to get to even 20 ng – Cashman April 2019
- Vitamin D is low in Europe – 40 percent have less than 20 ng – ODEN Oct 2018
- France wants to reduce hip fractures by drinking 10 glasses of milk daily – April 2018
- Kelloggs finally doubling the vitamin D in UK cereals (to 100 IU) – March 2018
- France is planning to reduce hip fractures by dairy vitamin D fortification (plan will not work) – 2017
- Vitamin D levels in Finland increased 2000-2011 (supplementation and fortification) – May 2017
- Vitamin D fortification is returning to Finland – now 400 IU per 100 gram of butter – Oct 2016
- Marks and Spencer (UK) is adding 80 IUs of vitamin D to sandwiches – Sept 2016
- Sweden will increase vitamin D food fortification a bit in Oct 2016
- Danes opposed to Vitamin D fortification, will get more COPD, diabetes, depression, lupus, leg pain, etc – Oct 2015
- Sweden proposes to increase Vitamin D fortification to US levels - May 2015
- Schizophrenia increased 40 percent for Spring births after Danes stopped vitamin D fortification – April 2014
- Vitamin D fortification of milk helps (proven in Gemany this time) – RCT Dec 2013
- ODIN: Europeans study vitamin D fortification and testing
- Sweden has fortified low-fat milk with a small amount of vitamin D since 1983
- Germany does not fortify ANY food with vitamin D, is considering 1000 IU from bread – Nov 2013
- Danish study of childhood diseases vs vitamin D fortification – May 2013
- UK Milk producer sets vitamin D day, yet UK milk rarely has vitamin D – March 31 2013
- Can fortify food with 1000 IU of vitamin D - Italy, March 2013
- Vitamin D review from Ireland - April 2012
Many ways to increase Vitamin D
click on chart for details
Overview Deficiency of vitamin D has the following chart
CONSORTIUM
AUSTRIA : Medizinische Universitat Graz www.meduni-graz.at/
BELGIUM : European Food Information Ressource AISBL www.eurofir.org
DENMARK : Danmarks Tekniske Universitet www.dtu.dk
Aarhus Universitetshospital www.auh.dk/english
Kobenhavns Universitet www.ku.dk
FINLAND : Helsingin Ylipisto www.helsinki.fi/food-and-environment/
FRANCE : Lallemand SAS www.lallemand.com
GERMANY : Universitaetsklinikum Freiburg www.uniklinik-freiburg.de
Robert Koch-Institut www.rki.de
GREECE : Harokopio University www.hua.gr
ICELAND : Hjartavernd SES www.hjarta.is
IRELAND : University College Cork, National University of Ireland www.ucc.ie
University College Dublin, National University of Ireland www.ucd.ie/agfoodvet/
Creme Software, Ltd. www.cremeglobal.com
Daithi O’Murchu Marine Research Station, Ltd. www.dommrc.com
Monoghan Mushooms Ireland www.monaghan-mushrooms.com
NETHERLANDS : Stichting VU-VUMC www.vumc.nl
Frieslandcmapina Nederland Holding BV www.frieslandcampina.com
Danone Research BV www.danone.com
NORWAY : Universitetet I Tromsoe www.uit.no
PORTUGAL: Sparos, Lda. www.sparos.pt
SERBIA : Institut Za Medicinska Istra Ivanja www.srbnutrition.info
SLOVAKIA : PAMIDA International, Ltd. www.pamidainternational.com
SPAIN : Universidad Politecnica de Madrid www.upm.es
SWITZERLAND : DSM Nutritional Products, Ltd. www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com
UKRAINE : Donetsk National Medical University named after Maxim Gorkiy www.dsmu.edu.ua
UNITED KINGDOM : University of Surrey www.surrey.ac.uk
Medical Research Council www.mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk
University of Southampton www.mrc.soton.ac.uk
The University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
UNITED STATES : United States Department of Health and Human Services www.ods.od.nih.gov/
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