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Essential nutrients - The most important additives a miller can put in flour

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lour additives serve many purposes, health of consumers, however; that is the flour fortification is among his most gratify- • Moisture
from improving flour’s appearance role of vitamins and minerals added to ing work because these flour additives have • Protein
and the dough’s workability to giving flour in the fortification process. the potential to make the most impact on
• Oil
flour a longer shelf life. These benefits human health.
mean that people have access to more “These essential nutrients are the most Iron is one of the most common nutrients • Fiber
varieties of food and safe foods are important additives a miller can put in flour,” added to flour, because iron deficiency is • Ash
available to more people. These additives said Scott J Montgomery. the most common and widespread nutri- • Starch
are not designed primarily to improve the In February 2011, Mr Montgomery tional disorder in the world, according to the • and many other
was named World Health Organization. Iron deficiency
parameters...
Director of is significant in industrialised countries as well
the Flour as developing countries. It reduces a person’s
Fortification work capacity, impairs a child’s physical and
Initiative (FFI), intellectual development and contributes to
a network 20 percent of all maternal deaths.
of public, Fifteen years ago, Guatemala and Oman Bruker teamed up with the world leaders of animal nutrition to
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ing practice these fatal or permanently disabling birth to ensure optimum performance and maximum benefit from
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mills. based on the countries’ original rate of these
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general health and reduce specific diseases.
Niacin deficiency, for example, causes
the skin disease known as pellagra, but this
disease is not common in countries, which
add niacin to their flour.
Mr Montgomery sees encouraging millers
to add nutrients to their flour to improve
global health as similar to a private sector
company managing its business for prosperity
and growth.
“Our success in FFI is measured by the
increase in fortified staple foods available to
the population in each country; our prosper-
ity and growth translate into making a signifi-
cant contribution to reducing the burden of
micronutrient deficiency,” he said.
Examples of countries
fortifying with folic acid
and the resulting percent
decrease in neural
tube defects include:
Canada 46%
Costa Rica 35%
Chile 41%
South Africa 31%
United States 37%
Mr Montgomery received a bachelor’s
degree in milling science and management
from Kansas State University in 1980 and
worked for Cargill Incorporated from 1980
to 2010. He began as a trainee at the
company’s oilseeds processing plant in
Washington, Iowa.
He quickly moved into the wheat flour
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milling business, holding several supervisory
positions across North America. This was
followed by global operations responsibility
for Cargill’s wheat and maize milling opera-
tions and ultimately citrus operations in
every region of the world. He retired from
Cargill in 2010 as Vice President, Global
Procurement Leader.
In 2004, Mr Montgomery joined the FFI
Executive Management Team (EMT) as a
Cargill representative and he served as the
EMT chairman from 2006-2010. The EMT
includes representatives from multiple-sector
partners who provide strategic direction to
FFI.
“Scott has demonstrated his leadership
skills, his ability to plan strategically and his
passion for improving people’s health by
adding nutrients to flour,” said Greg Harvey,
Chief Executive of Interflour Group, one of
Southeast Asia’s largest flour milling compa-
nies, and Chairman of the FFI EMT.
The EMT co-chair agreed.
“Scott’s clear understanding of indus-
try concerns is a critical component to
the FFI approach of partnering between
public, private and civic sectors,” said Nick
Alipui, Director of UNICEF Programmes and
Co-chair of the FFI EMT.
Creating a global group to promote flour
fortification was proposed in 2002 during
a meeting of the Industrial Association of
Operative Millers (IAOM) and an official FFI
Leaders Group was formed in 2004.
The FFI founder was Glen Maberly, a
professor at Emory University in Atlanta,
Georgia, who resigned in 2009 to become
Director of The Centre for Health Innovation
and Partnership in Australia. The FFI Global
Secretariat remains at Emory University.
As a network of partners, one of FFI’s
strengths is convening groups from multiple
sectors to discuss fortification challenges
and strategies. In 2010, such meetings were
held in Thailand, Russia, France, and South
Africa, drawing a combined total of 200-plus
people.
FFI encourages countries to pass legisla-
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technical support to countries at various
stages of the fortification process. In 2010,
leaders in East Africa were encouraged to
update their country’s fortification standards
with the latest scientific guidelines. In the
past 12 months, millers and regulatory staff
in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were trained
to take the next steps toward implementing
their 2009 fortification mandate.
In Chandigarh, India, 48 mill owners and
operators were taught fortification’s best
practices.
FFI’s focus has traditionally been encour-
aging countries to add nutrients to wheat
flour and one challenge is expanding advo-
cacy, training and data collection to include
maize flour. FFI’s primary expertise is for-
tification in large roller mills, consequently
another challenge is working in India and
Africa, which have a large number of small
mills (that is, chakki or hammer mills).
Rather than being daunted by the chal-
lenges, Mr Montgomery sees them as oppor-
tunities. He has led the staff to develop a
strategy for working in Africa, and he has met
with multiple leaders in India regarding flour
fortification there.
“We have a great team of extremely
dedicated individuals; my hope is to bring
a real business approach to this team of
heroes with clear strategies, work plans,
accountabilities and a spirit of urgency. FFI
has accomplished a lot in the last seven
years, and I hope to lead the team to the
next plateau.”
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