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Maplecroft – the corporate responsibility specialist, and BASF – a founding participant of the United Nations Global Compact and leading provider of food-fortification solutions, have partnered to produce an interactive map of hunger to coincide with World Food Day on 16th October 2006. The Global Map of Hunger is based on latest data from Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.

For the full version of the interactive map, please klick on the following Icon.

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Intra BASF Partnership - UV Light Absorbers made Available for Food Fortification Thursday, July 03, 2008

BASF’s mission to help customers become more successful through research and development partnerships has led to the development of UV absorber for plastic bottles which protects vitamin A in oil from degradation and rancidity. The idea for UV absorbers for vitamin A was conceived in December 2004 when BASF’s Dr. Soendergaard was invited to join a Vitamin A multi-stakeholder meeting entitled ‘Preserve Retinol in Fortified Foods’ in Washington DC discussing the stability of vitamin A. When the discussion came to oil it was made clear that consumers in most countries prefer to buy vegetable oil in transparent bottles despite...  more