Sustained iodine deficiency control requires sustainable mechanisms for iodine supplementation. We aim to describe the status of salt iodation machines, salt producers’ experiences and quality ...

Iodization is powerful for two reasons. First, iodine deficiency is highly localized, most often seen far away from the sea in mountainous or glaciated areas, where erosion has reduced the iodine ...

Iodization is not the major culprit, as both imported and local salts can be iodized. “When you talk of iodine deficiency, we’re addressing the needs of the mass base of Filipinos.

When Arnaud Laillou, a nutrition specialist with UNICEF, led a salt iodization study in 2014, he wanted to be sure that salt producers were not adding too much iodine. Just four years earlier ...

We've seen IQs go up by about 3 points every decade, something called the Flynn effect, so iodization of salt may be responsible for a full decade's worth of increasing IQ in the U.S.

CEBU, Philippines - The National Nutrition Council (NNC) hopes that newly-elected officials, especially local chief executives, will strictly implement salt iodization in their respective local ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in collaboration with UNICEF have taken 113 people from major salt producing areas in the country through series of training on salt ...

Through the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), Unicef on Saturday donated two Iodization plants with their generators to the National Association of Salt Producers and Traders (NASPaT) during their ...

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AFTER almost three decades since the enactment of the salt iodization law, or the ASIN Law, some legislators are mulling over incentives to revive the local salt industry and cure the "insanity" ...

THE Department of Health (DoH) has defended the implementation of the salt iodization program of the government, noting that it remains a "successful and cost-effective" measure in addressing iodine ...