NUTRITION, HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY

• Joined the “New Alliance for Food and Nutritional Security” at G8 meeting in Washington DC
• Joined the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) framework; pledged Nutrition-based initiatives at the “Global Nutrition for Growth Compact” forum in London
• Introduced a Nutrition Policy in the organization to improve nutrition and health, reaching more than 300 employees
• Established strict norms of Food Safety and Quality Management Systems across all of Guts’ factories; ISO-22000 certification
  • Highest A-Rating by World Food Programme for SuperCereal supply
• Production of Low Cost, Iodized salt to eradicate Iodine Deficiency Disorders. Factory identified by Micro-Nutrient Initiative (MI) as the only Ethiopian factory capable of Double Fortification
• Development of New Products
  • Chickpea-based Ready-to-Use-Supplementary Food (RUSF)
  • Double-Fortified Salt
  • Chickpea-Soy-Maize based nutritional products for consumer market
  • Nutrition-centric baby cereals for infants and young-children