Malnutrition: EU backs local sourcing drive for RUTF nutrition ingredients

…tours NutriK Kano plant, laud Investment in child nutrition
From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
The European Union (EU) has thrown its weight behind efforts to localise the sourcing of ingredients used in the production of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), as a Team Europe delegation visited a manufacturing facility in Kano and commended the company’s investment in child nutrition and local industrial development.
The delegation, led by the EU Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Gautier Mignot, and comprising ambassadors and representatives of EU Member States as well as UNICEF officials, toured the NutriK’s production facility in the Kano Free Trade Zone as part of a broader mission to assess...