Compliance Level and Stability of Micronutrients in Fortified Maize Flour in Tanzania

Table 1

and range for concentration (mg/kg) of micronutrients in maize flour sample at production and retail outlets.

Source of samples		Micronutrient concentrations (mg/kg)			Moisture contents
		Iron^1	Zinc^1	Folic acid^1
Production sites (PS)	38	^a	^a	^a	^a
Retail outlet (RO)	31	^b	^b	^b	^a
Range for PS		5.79-77.66	5.62-118.15	0.29-1.47	11.02-14.65
Range for RO		6.15-35.81	2.67-46.69	0.22-1.12	11.28-14.50

¹Values are the mean concentration of three replicates times for each sample, and values having different superscripts are significantly different at . is the number of samples.