A Canadian professor has received $250,000 to develop a plan to fight iron deficiency or anemia that kills hundreds of thousands of people every year by fortifying tea. His plan is to encapsulate iron and combine it with tea leaves in a way that it can be absorbed in the bodies of tea drinkers.
This is not a first effort to provide iron to poorer populations for Levente Diosady, a professor of chemical engineering and applied chemistry at the University of Toronto. He was on a team which fortified salt with iodine and later with iron.
Diosady was the only Canadian to win an award at the international competition called Saving Lives at Birth: a Grand Challenge for Development sponsored by the governments of Canada, the U.S., Norway, Britain and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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