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COMING EARLY SEPTEMBER 2017
The Global Fortification Data Exchange (GFDx) is a new analysis and visualization tool for food fortification data. The GFDx was created to empower governments, donors, implementing agencies and other members of the global health and development community to make data-driven decisions to plan, resource, and track food fortification policies and programs.
This resource represents a joint effort by the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Iodine Global Network (IGN), and Micronutrient Forum to make existing global datasets open, discoverable and understandable and to enable decision makers to answer questions like:
- In a given country, which nutrients are added to foods, and how much of those foods are consumed?
- Which countries have legislated standards for micronutrient fortification of foods?
- How has the expansion of fortification legislation evolved over time, and for which foods?
In its first release, the GFDx will include indicators on food fortification legislation from 1942 to the present as well as available standards, food availability, and intake for over 230 countries. You will be able to generate custom maps, charts and tables within the tool, or download data for offline analysis, and the tool will continue to be updated with the most recent datasets, additional indicators and analyses.