Ghana's Food and Drugs Board recently conducted a workshop for journalists "to propagate the need to sue iodated salt," ModernGhana reported October 19. Among the topics presented were iodine deficiency disorders, the importance of iodated salt in the human diet and the 15-year old legislative mandate for iodated salt.

The FDB spokesperson "appealed to media practitioners not to give platforms to others who speak against the importance of iodated salt. He said the importance of iodated salt could not be over-estimated as the Board was working hard to remove non-iodated salt from the markets." He "expressed worry over the continued availability of non iodated salt on the market," and expressed the agency's "hope to terminate the canker now, but for now, we are minimising it."