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Industrial mills with equipment for fortification installed and properly working
This indicator provides information on documentation that all of the fortification equipment needed by the large-scale mills in the fortification programme is properly working.
Industrial fortification of wheat or maize flour requires a minimum of operative equipment, including a mill, a premix feeder (or dosifier) with a discharge mechanism, a blender (or mixer) and power stabilizers. The large mills, those with the capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat or maize per day, may have all of this equipment or only some of it. This indicator monitors whether equipment to effectively fortify flour has been installed in mills and is properly operating.
The percentage of industrial mills with the minimum equipment installed and properly working
Numerator: the number of mills with the capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat or maize per day with the minimum equipment necessary installed and properly working
Denominator: the total number of mills in the country with the capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat per day
• Divide the numerator by the denominator. Multiply the result by 100 to convert the number into a percentage.
Considerations for the calculations:
• The required equipment may need to be defined for each mill.
• Equipment must work properly to fulfil the criteria for this indicator.
• If there are only a few mills, it may be more appropriate to report the number of mills instead of calculating the percentage.
blender, dosifier, equipment, mixer, , premix feeder
Food fortification
Activity
Production and supply
School age children, 12-23 months, 24-35 months, 36-47 months, 48-59 months, 6-11 months, Adolescents, Men, Other (not any of the above, post-menopausal women, elderly), Women of reproductive age
None,
Copper, Folate, Iron, Niacin, Selenium, Vitamin A, Thiamine (vitamin B1), Vitamin B12, Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Zinc
Market-based
When a fortification programme is starting, an initial assessment needs to be conducted among the large mills with a capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat or maize per day, to determine what, if any, necessary equipment is missing. When a fortification programme is operating, the regulatory agency should assess, at every mill visit, that the required equipment is in proper use in each mill. In other words, checking that all equipment required for fortification is properly working is an integral part of the ongoing inspection conducted by the regulatory agency.
This indicator demonstrates how many mills have all of the necessary equipment properly installed and are ready to effectively fortify at a particular time.
This indicator requires visiting all of the mills periodically and defining for each the necessary equipment needed, which may be challenging to accomplish without sufficient human and financial resources.
Equipment that is properly working at an assessment visit does not guarantee that it will continue to work properly or that the mill owners will fortify flour. This is a responsibility of the mill manager and the assessment may require a specialized technician. Food inspectors may not be trained on the operating procedures for the equipment for flour fortification, and the availability of these data may rely on information from the individual mill manager or the quality-control department.
In a country, the number of large wheat-flour mills with a capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat per day was assessed to determine whether they had dosifiers and power stabilizers that were properly installed and functional.
Numerator: 33 mills with dosifiers and power stabilizers installed and working properly
Denominator: 48 mills with the capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons of wheat per day
Calculation: 33/48 * 100 = 69% of mills with the capacity to mill at least 20 metric tons per day had proper equipment installed and working.
Allen L, de Benoist B, Dary O, Hurrell R, editors. Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients. Geneva: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; 2006 (http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43412/1/9241594012_eng.pdf, accessed 30 October 2015).