Public Health Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Optimal Vitamin D Status in Populations with Special Needs1
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Presented as part of the symposium “Optimizing Vitamin D Intake for Populations with Special Needs: Barriers to Effective Mechanisms of Food Fortification and Supplementation” given at the 2005 Experimental Biology meeting on April 4, 2005, San Diego, CA. The symposium was sponsored by the American Society for Nutrition and supported, in part, by educational grants from the Centrum Foundation of Canada, the Coca-Cola Company, and the Natural Ovens Bakery, Inc. The proceedings are published as a supplement to The Journal of Nutrition. This supplement is the responsibility of the guest editors to whom the Editor of The Journal of Nutrition has delegated supervision of both technical conformity to the published regulations of The Journal of Nutrition and general oversight of the scientific merit of each article. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and are not attributable to the sponsors or the publishers, editor, or editorial board of The Journal of Nutrition, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Food and Drug Administration. The guest editors for this symposium publication are Susan J. Whiting, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada and Mona S. Calvo, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, USA.