Iodine Global Network (IGN)

Iodine in the global news

15. January 2010

Pakistan's salt iodization gets consumer push

"Large consumers" in Pakistan are formalizing an alliance using their purchasing power to enlarge the marketplace demand for iodized salt, The News (Karachi) reported January 15. "Organized by The Network for Consumer Protection, the meeting was based...

14. January 2010

Tibet gears up for iodized salt

Xinhua reports that Tibet will set up a Salt Bureau to facilitate salt iodization.

03. January 2010

World's healthiest food

NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof asks "What’s the most scrumptious, wholesome, exquisite, healthful, gratifying food in the world?" and answers that it's food fortified with vital micronutrients. He highlights folic acid-fortified flour and iodized...

24. December 2009

Tibet reaches 80% household access to iodized salt

Rural areas of Tibet have made strong progress in adopting iodized salt, reports China Tibet Online. In 2008, 66% had access to iodized salt. New 2009 figures show an increase to 80%. Calling the advance "a new breakthrough ... in the promotion of...

08. December 2009

Iodine deficiency in industrialized countries

Dr. Michael B. Zimmerman, editor of ICCIDD's IDD Newsletter, cautions in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society that iodine deficiency is a global problem and affects industrialized countries as well as many developing countries. He affirms there is ...

01. December 2009

Turning around Australia's iodine deficiency

Australia and New Zealand may be on the other side of the globe from the U.S. and Europe, but the lessons being learned "Down Under" about cycling between iodine deficiency and sufficiency -- and back again -- have application globally, particularly in...

30. November 2009

Iodizing salt best investment to avoid a "poor start to life": World Bank

Harold Alderman of the World Bank estimates the payback for investments in iodizing salt to return between $12 and $30 for every dollar invested. The study was just published in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. Iodizing salt...

07. November 2009

Philippines observe Food Fortification Day

03. November 2009

PAHO panel declares no conflict between salt iodization imperative and salt reduction efforts

At a Washington, D.C. panel hosted by the Pan American Health Organization November 3rd, panelists representing the ICCIDD, US AID, Health Canada, PAHO, US FDA and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) affirmed unanimously that there is no...

02. November 2009

Vietnam celebrates use of iodized salt

November 2 was the official day recognizing the importance of using iodized salt proclaimed by the government of Vietnam. Deputy prime minister Truong Vinh Trong reminded that Vietnam had made a major effort to eliminate IDD between 2001 and 2005,...

01. November 2009

November IDD Newsletter features iodine and cognition

The November IDD Newsletter has been released, featuring stories on the role of iodine in cognition, Theodor Kocher's Nobel Prize for thyroid and goiter discoveries a hundred years ago and country profiles for Thailand, China and Fiji.

01. November 2009

It's official: Bread "Down Under" now uses iodized salt

Bakers in Australia and New Zealand are now required to use iodized salt under Food Standards Agency of Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) regulations. The regulation extends the requirement that retail food salt be iodized and was needed because more and...

29. October 2009

Kenya trims iodine concentration in iodized salt

Responding to survey data showing relatively high iodine levels in Kenya, the country has enacted new regulations which reduce the level of iodine from 168.5 mg/kg to between 50 and 84 ppm according to Business Daily in Nairobi. Local salt producers say...

09. October 2009

Australia's experience with iodine nutrition

ICCIDD vice chairman and Asia/Pacific Regional coordinator Cres Eastman presented Australia's experience in discovering its "solution" to iodine deficiency, use of iodized salt, had eroded over time and needed corrective measures, reported Medical News...

01. October 2009

Indonesia mobilizes police to enforce salt iodization

Some police sport firearms, others utilize canine companions. In Indonesia, police use iodine titration kits to enforce the mandatory salt iodization statute, as headlined in a UNICEF news release. The UNICEF release reminds: "Iodine deficiency is...

01. October 2009

Why New Zealand uses iodized salt in bread

Bakers will begin using iodized salt in bread this month in both Australia and New Zealand. The Science Media Centre explains why bread is being fortified with iodine. "Iodine is one of the essential nutrients which our bodies need in order to...

29. September 2009

Pretell receives prestigious Horwitz Award from PAHO and PAHEF

ICCIDD's regional coordinator for the America's is the recipient of the Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in Inter-American Health. Created in 1975 bv the Pan American Health Organization and Pan American Health & Education Foundation, the award...

06. September 2009

Salt Symposium/Chinese Ministry of Health meetings highlight September

Many ICCIDD members were on hand for the 9th International Symposium on Salt held in Beijing in early September. With all these iodine experts available, China's Ministry of Health organized a side meeting to discuss its progress and plans. See ICCIDD...

03. September 2009

Tanzania documents progress against IDD

A study by ICCIDD regional coordinator Vincent Assey and associates, published in BMC Public Health, finds "marked improvement in iodine nutrition in Tanzania, twelve years after the initiation of salt iodation programme." The study identifies two...

01. September 2009

Nepal gets India's support against unauthorized, non-iodized salt

Nepal, India have agreed to extend India's aid program for its neighbor's salt iodization program, Telegraph Nepal has reported. According to 2006 data, though more than 95% of households are using salt with some iodine and 60% of the households are...

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