_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: tron.gifstad@vkm.no; European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety 13(4): 55-57, 2021; Article no.EJNFS.70512 ISSN: 2347-5641 Assessment and Updating of the Fortification Model from 2006 Margaretha Haugen 1* , Jutta Dierkes 2 , Wenche Frølich 3 , Livar Frøyland 4 , Ragnhild Halvorsen 5 , Per Ole Iversen 6 , Jan Ludvig Lyche 7 , Azam Mansoor 8 , Helle Margrete Meltzer 1 and Bjørn Steen Skålhegg 6 1 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI), Norway. 2 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), University of Bergen (UiB), Norway. 3 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. 4 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), Institute of Marine Research (NIFES), Norway. 5 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), Norway. 6 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. 7 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway. 8 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM), University of Agder (UiA), Norway. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. The opinion has been assessed and approved by the Panel on Nutrition, Dietetic Products, Novel Food and Allergy of VKM. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/EJNFS/2021/v13i430405 Received 14 May 2021 Accepted 17 July 2021 Published 30 July 2021 ABSTRACT In 2006 the, the Panel on Nutrition, Dietetic Products, Novel Food and Allergy in the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) adapted a Danish model for assessing applications concerning food fortification into Norwegian conditions. The fortification model is presently used by the Norwegian Food Safety Authorities as a tool in the management of applications on food fortification. The model from 2006 was based on intake calculations from dietary surveys from 1997-2000. Since then, new national dietary surveys have been published. These are the comprehensive nationwide Norwegian dietary surveys among adults (Norkost 3, 2010-2011), among young Grey Literature