Micronutrients list of publications

The documents and articles listed below can be accessed, downloaded, or ordered from the WHO bookshop.

Norms and standards

• Report: priorities in the assessment of vitamin A and iron status in populations (2012)
  15-17 September 2010, Panama City, Panama
• Report of the WHO meeting on estimating appropriate levels of vitamins and minerals for food fortification programmes: The WHO intake monitoring, assessment and planning program (IMAPP) (2010)
  Geneva, Switzerland, 22 July 2009
• Salt as a vehicle for fortification (2008)
  Report of a WHO Expert Consultation, 21-22 March 2007, Luxembourg
• Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients (2006)
• Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition (2004)
  Second edition
• Trace elements in human nutrition and health (1996)

Statements

• Recommendations on wheat and maize flour fortification meeting report: Interim Consensus Statement (2009)
• Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) in women of reproductive age: its role in promoting optimal maternal and child health (2009)
• Preventing and controlling micronutrient deficiencies in populations affected by an emergency (2007)
  pdf, 800kb
• Reaching Optimal Iodine Nutrition in Pregnant and Lactating Women and Young Children (2007)
  pdf, 207kb
  Revised 20th November 2007
• Iron supplementation of young children in regions where malaria transmission is intense and infectious disease highly prevalent (2006)
  pdf, 295kb
• Focusing on anaemia: towards an integrated approach for effective anaemia control

Peer-reviewed articles

Due to copyright arrangements, some of the links to articles may be not freely accessible.

• de Benoist B et al. Iodine deficiency in 2007: Global progress since 1993
  pdf, 421kb
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 29, no. 3, 195-202, September 2008
• Conclusions of a WHO Technical Consultation on folate and vitamin B12 deficiencies
  pdf, 110kb
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 29, no. 2 (supplement), S238-S246, June 2008
• Mclean E et al. Worldwide prevalence of anaemia, WHO Vitamin and Mineral Nutrition Information System, 1993-2005
  pdf, 191kb
  Public Health Nutrition, vol 23,1-11, May 2008 [Epub ahead of print]
• Prevention and control of iodine deficiency in pregnant and lactating women and in children less than 2-years-old: conclusions and recommendations of the Technical Consultation
  pdf, 87kb
  Public Health Nutrition, vol 10, no. 12a, 1606-1611, December 2007
• de Benoist B et al. Conclusions of the Joint WHO/UNICEF/IAEA/IZiNCG Interagency Meeting on Zinc Status Indicators
  pdf, 127kb
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 28, no. 3 (supplement), S480-S486, September 2007
• Andersson M et al. Current global iodine status and progress over the last decade towards the elimination of iodine deficiency
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization, vol 83, no. 7, 518-525, July 2005
• Zimmermann MB et al. New reference values for thyroid volume by ultrasound in iodine-sufficient schoolchildren: a World Health Organization/Nutrition for Health and Development Iodine Deficiency Study Group Report
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 79, no. 2, 231-237, February 2004
• de Benoist B et al. Prevalence of iodine deficiency worldwide
  The Lancet, vol 362, issue 9398, 1859-1860, 29 November 2003
• Weize-Prinzo Z, De Benoist B. Meeting the challenges of micronutrient deficiencies in emergency-affected populations
  pdf, 722kb
  Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, vol 61, no. 2, 251-257, May 2002
• de Benoist B et al. Vitamin A supplementation and control of vitamin A deficiency: Conclusions
  pdf, 71kb
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 22, no. 3, 335-340, September 2001

Conclusions and recommendations of the WHO Consultation on prevention and control of iron deficiency in infants and young children in malaria endemic areas
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol 28, no. 4 (supplement), S621-S631, December 2007

• English [pdf 148kb]
  pdf, 150kb
• French [pdf 130kb]
  pdf, 130kb
  Médicine Tropicale 2008, page 68

Regional publications

• Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation programmes for women of reproductive age: An analysis of best programme practices (2011)
  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
• UNICEF/WHO/FFI Meeting on Implementation in Asia of the Recommendations on Wheat Flour Fortification (2010)
  Meeting Report, Manila, Philippines, 10-12 November 2009
• Preventive Weekly Iron-Folic Acid Supplementation Can Improve Iron Status of Reproductive age Women: Experience in Cambodia, the Philippines and Viet Nam (2005)
  Nutrition Reviews, Volume 63, Supplement 1, December 2005
• Meeting on weekly iron/folic acid supplementation for preventing anaemia in women of reproductive age in the western pacific region (2003)
  Meeting Report, Manila, Philippines, 29 September - 1 October 2003
• Iron compounds for food fortification: Guidelines for Latin America and the Caribbean 2002
  Nutrition Review, Vol. 60, No. 7, July 2002: (II)S50-S61

• Code of Practice for Food Premix Operations (2005)
• Micronutrient deficiencies in Africa (1998)
  WHO intercountry workshop for national programme managers, 7-9 October 1997, Gaborone, Botswana
• Atelier OMS interpays sur les carences en micronutriments pour les coordonnateurs nationaux de programmes (1997)
  Bamako, Mali, 27-29 Mai 1997

Other documents

• Investing in the future: A united call to action on vitamin and mineral deficiencies
  Global report 2009
• Pellagra and its prevention and control in major emergencies (2000)
• Thiamine deficiency and its prevention and control in major emergencies (1999)
• Scurvy and its prevention and control in major emergencies (1999)