While India mandates iodized salt, quality varies, experts agreed at a meeting March 22 in Tuticorin, India. Kumar Jayant, Commissioner of the Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration tod delegates at a salt producers meeting organized by Micronutrient India Initiative that a uniform minimum standard of 30 ppm iodine should be required at production and 15 ppm at retail. The assistant salt commissioner urged salt producers to invest in "building brand equity by maintaining quality standards in production of salt." The salt producers called for pollution prevention controls, the absence of which causes salt product contamination.