Sweden proposes to increase Vitamin D fortification to US levels

Sweden to expand mandatory vitamin D fortification Food Navigator

||Food| Before|After

Milk |3.85 and 5 mg/L| 10 mg/L

cooking oil | |20 micrograms/ 100 grams||

Note: most Swedish companies were already doing this, but now it may become manditory

See also Vitamin D Life

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• Can fortify food with 1000 IU of vitamin D - Italy, March 2013

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