Iodine Global Network (IGN)

Iodine in the global news

18. October 2010

Spanish study confirms iodized salt or iodine supplements' value to pregnant women

Spanish researchers have confirmed that adding iodine supplements during pregnancy, and consuming iodized salt, can ensure iodine sufficiency during the critical development months of fetal development, according to a report in the October 18 issue of...

13. October 2010

See this video on salt iodization in Kenya

The government of Kenya has produced a great video on its salt iodization progress. Congratulations!

01. October 2010

American restaurants should use iodized salt to halt US iodine deficiency trend

An October 1 article in Environmental Health Perspectives documents the declining iodine status of the U.S. population and suggests an immediate remedy would be to have the food service industry utilize iodized salt consistently. Rebecca Renner uses...

27. September 2010

Azerbaijan suspends sale of low-iodine Russian, Ukrainian salt

Azerbaiijanian officials suspended sale of inadequately-iodized Extra Salt from Ukraine and Bassol Salt from Russia and the importer was ordered to remove the salt from the marketplace, Trend News Agency reported September 27.

23. September 2010

Ukraine losing its intellectual, professional and educations potential by failing to iodize salt

Procrastination in implementing universal salt iodization is depleting Ukraine's intellectual potential and "degrading society" concluded speakers at a September 23 seminar in Kiev held in conjunction with the 4th National Congress on Bioethics, reports...

21. September 2010

Mannar, double-fortified salt praised for technical innovation

ICCIDD board member Venkatesh Mannar, president of Micronutrient Initiative, was named Sept. 21 as one of 15 Laureates fo The Tech Awards 2010 for his work creating double-fortified salt (iodine and iron). Double fortified salt required innovative food...

16. September 2010

Pretell overviews world iodine intake at International Thyroid Association

ICCIDD Americas regional coordinator and former Peruvian health minister Eduardo Pretell recently provided the International Thyroid Association an overview of iodine intakes worldwide.

15. September 2010

Zimmermann calls for "new strategies" against IDD

Noting that one-third the world is iodine deficient and 30% of households lack access to iodized salt, ICCIDD board member Dr. Michael B. Zimmermann told the International Thyroid Congress in Paris that new strategies to target iodine supplementation...

04. September 2010

ICCIDD chair urges UNICEF to maintain priority on iodine nutrition

Speaking at the recent UNICEF Board meeting, ICCIDD chairman Jerry Burrow reminded the Board that "UNICEF has invested heavily in salt iodization with good results" and urged the UNICEF Board to extend and expand its efforts. Specifically, he urged...

06. August 2010

Women salt producers in Senegal "lead the charge" against iodine deficiency

Iodine deficiency is a major problem in Senegal where it causes birth defects in children and goitre in adults," reports ReliefWeb, a service of the UN World Food Program.

01. August 2010

Iodized salt progress in Nepal threatened

Medical professionals are a mainstay of national coalitions for sustainable salt iodization, thus articles in general medical journals like The Lancet are important -- as is this "World Report" item about Nepal by Nayanah Siva. Siva summarizes the...

01. August 2010

August IDD Newsletter featured iodine deficiency during pregnancy

The new quarterly IDD Newsletter is now online. The lead article explains the recent global focus on iodine deficiency during pregnancy. Iodine is critical for optimal fetal development. Yet 38 million newborns in developing countries every year ...

26. July 2010

China tightens fortification range in iodized salt

China has proposed tightening the range of allowable iodine fortification in its iodized salt from 20-60 ppm to 20-30 ppm, CRIEnglish.com has reported. Public comments will be accepted until September 12. The ministry said earlier this month iodized...

13. July 2010

China presses ahead on salt iodization, dismisses concern of excess iodine

China's health ministry held a press conference July 12 renewing their commitment to providing iodized salt throughout the country and "refuted concerns of excessive iodine intake, Xinhua reported. "Chen Rui, an official with China's Health Ministry,...

01. July 2010

Blog for Self Magazine suggests US food processors use iodized salt

"Experts worry that reducing salt will lead to iodine deficiency" headlined the new SELFNutritionData blog, noting the "irony" of the U.S. pioneering in salt iodization in the 1920s and rehearsing that "the American Thyroid Association is worried that if...

24. June 2010

ICCIDD board bestows Basil Hetzel Award on Nicholas D. Kristof of NY Times

Nicholas D. Kristof of the New York Times is the winner of the inaugural winner of the Basil Hetzel Award for his understanding and advocacy of “the crucial role of micronutrients and the model achievements of iodized salt in meeting the challenge of...

16. June 2010

CDC scientists highlight US iodine deficiency among pregnant women

This week's headline in The Journal of Nutrition headlined work from scientists at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: "Some subgroups of reproductive age women in the United States may be at risk for iodine deficiency." US iodine intakes...

10. June 2010

US iodine levels "a worry": American Thyroid Association

Writing in the June 10 New England Journal of Medicine, members of the American Thyroid Association, including ICCIDD board member Elizabeth Pearce, affirmed that "Iodized salt is an important source of dietary iodine in the U.S. and worldwide. Iodine,...

01. June 2010

Study suggests China should reduce iodine fortification level in salt

Researchers from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention, writing in the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have concluded in a study of 1,099 volunteers in 399 households that the current fortification level of iodine in Chinese table...

01. June 2010

ADB report highlights central Asian progress on micronutrient nutrition

Disease caused by major micronutrient deficiencies posed a growing and urgent problem for the newly emerging countries of Central Asia in the 1990s. The Asian Development Bank responded with a regional food fortification initiative - the first major...

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