At PATH I now direct the Ultra Rice project. The goal is the develop models for increasing the supply of and demand for fortified rice in China, India, Brazil and Colombia. You can read about this ingenious technology at http://www.path.org/projects/ultra_rice.php

At the Micronutrient Forum international meeting in Istanbul, Turkey in April 2007, an abstract was presented of a clinical trial showing that consuming iron-fortified Ultra Rice greatly reduced anemia in women factory workers in Mexico.

Click here to download the abstract.