The Armenian health ministry says it wrote to Chile asking if it had registered an increase in cancer cases after allowing the enrichment of wheat flour and that the response was that not such increase had been registered and that, on the contrary, certain illnesses had witnessed a decrease.
In response to a question posed by a Prosperous Armenia Party MP, Minister of Health Armen Muradyan quoted figures that the number of anemic women of childbearing age had doubled from 12% in 2000 to 24% in 2005.
Manja Henriette Ahrens, who heads the UNICEF office in Armenia, is so intent to publicize the enriched flour project sponsored by her organization in a positive light, that sometimes, to put it mildly, she gets caught in sticky situations.