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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
iodise .
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- adjective treated with iodine
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Examples
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However, in a country that has a low levels of iodine in its soil, iodised salt is the best way to ensure your citizens do not succumb to that luminary of thyroid conditions, goitre.
Archive 2005-09-01 RICHARD 2005
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However, in a country that has a low levels of iodine in its soil, iodised salt is the best way to ensure your citizens do not succumb to that luminary of thyroid conditions, goitre.
The Great Anti-Christ. RICHARD 2005
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Other recommendations included introducing an information, education and communication programme to inform and educate salt producers responsible for the substantial portion on under-iodised salt to rectify their iodisation process, improving internal quality control, establishing links and a flow of related information.
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The Nutritional Intervention Research Unit's Dr Pieter Jooste, author of the brief, said in a statement: "Salt producers therefore represent an indispensable group of role players in the provision of sufficiently iodised salt in any country."
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The policy brief stated that a national survey of the iodine content of household salt recently showed that only 62,4 percent of households use adequately iodised salt, falling considerably short of the international goal.
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According to Unicef, the progress made since world leaders committed themselves to the elimination of iodine deficiency has been unparalleled in the history of public nutrition, with iodised salt reaching more than 3.3 billion people world-wide.
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"But do we know who consumes the 25 percent that is not iodised, and do we feel a responsibility for them?"
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Kenya, which began its universal salt iodisation programme in 1970, was among the first countries in the region to enact a law restricting non-iodised salt from its market.
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"Governments need to waive duties on iodised salt and machinery related to salt production to make salt affordable to households," says Fred Nagamara, a representative of Magadi Salt, one of Kenya's largest salt suppliers.
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"Thanks to all the efforts, three quarters of the food grade salt in the region is iodised," says Yambi.
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