Sunday, October 17, 2010

Story about the U.S. food aid will be any worse?

Hundreds of thousands of malnourished children receive poor quality and even harmful food aid due to the slow introduction of more nutritious alternatives, a medical charity organization has warned.

The United States continues to make a donation directly to mixtures of maize flour fortified relief organizations and wheat with soybeans that do not meet international standards agreed in the 1960s…

…older Corn-Soybean blend flavoured foods (CSBS) given US contained insufficient micronutrient antinutrients interfered with the absorption of the child, without dairy proteins which were important for growth and large, limit the intake by young children with small stomachs.

see the complete in the FT story.

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