The review identified various bottlenecks for cover age and utilization of fortified foods, including the co-existence of fortified and non-fortified products in the market; weak regulatory and monitoring frameworks; limited capacity to follow the stand ards due to added costs of fortification programs, unable to monitor the level of diversified and forti fied food intake periodically; reaching out to a non targeted population instead of the most in need; poor integration of laws and regulations into exist ing legal frameworks and/or reluctance to enforce the regulations. In addition, during production, pro ducers may have limited resources and be unable to implement the targeted program; thus, they are not carefully maintaining the necessary safety and quali ty control procedures as their priority.
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