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Current WHO recommendations on iron supplementation in children 

Current WHO recommendations on iron supplementation in children 

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... World Health Organization (WHO) started advocating univer- sal oral iron supplementation in children in 2001. There have been serious safety concerns, however, about interventions with these micronutrients, and although WHO supplementation guidelines (Table 1) have changed in view of these concerns, they continue to gener- ate controversy and confusion. This paper aims to summarise the key points of that debate. ...