<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/"><dcterms:title>Double-fortified salt containing folic acid and iodine improves the folate  status of non-pregnant Ethiopian women compared with iodized salt and  does not impair their iodine status: a community-based, household  randomized, three-arm, dose-response trial</dcterms:title><dcterms:identifier>https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JZCF2N</dcterms:identifier><dcterms:creator>The Nutrition, Environmental Health, and Non-communicable Disease  Research Directorate of EPHI</dcterms:creator><dcterms:publisher>Harvard Dataverse</dcterms:publisher><dcterms:issued>2025-08-19</dcterms:issued><dcterms:modified>2025-08-19T20:42:05Z</dcterms:modified><dcterms:description>The double-fortified salt (DFS) survey was conducted to test the acceptability and intake of salt fortified with both iodine and folic acid (IoFA), in comparison to standard iodized salt (IS). The study also examined how DFS affects biomarkers for folate and iodine status, and whether any serious side effects occurred.</dcterms:description><dcterms:subject>Medicine, Health and Life Sciences</dcterms:subject><dcterms:date>2025-08-19</dcterms:date><dcterms:contributor>Ethiopia, NIPN</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Masresha Tessema</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Debritu Nane</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Meseret Woldeyohannes</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Isaac Agbemafle</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Christine M McDonald</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Charles D Arnold</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Mengistu Fereja</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Feyissa Challa</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Homero Martinez</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Biniyam Tesfaye</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Getachew Tollera</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Mandana Arabi</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Kenneth H Brown</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Bedasa Tessema</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:contributor>Nutrition International, with financial support  from the Gates Foundation</dcterms:contributor><dcterms:dateSubmitted>2025-08-19</dcterms:dateSubmitted><dcterms:temporal>2024-04-01</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:temporal>2024-12-31</dcterms:temporal><dcterms:rights>This dataset is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 license with the following additional/modified terms and conditions</dcterms:rights></metadata>