BAUAN, Batangas (PIA) — The Regional Bantay Asin Task Force (RBATF) in Calabarzon has intensified its enforcement and ...

In 2024, we celebrate 100 years of salt iodization — a tremendous public health achievement. Soils across much of the upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest and throughout the Appalachians are poor ...

Originally, iodization was adopted to reduce the incidence of goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland. But research since then has found that iodine also plays a crucial role in brain development, ...

That whole drive was due to Republic Act 8172, better known as the ASIN Law (Act for Salt Iodization Nationwide), which solely pushed for the addition of iodine in salt to address deficiencies.

We've seen IQs go up by about 3 points every decade, something called the Flynn effect, so iodization of salt may be responsible for a full decade's worth of increasing IQ in the U.S. If a mother ...

Over the period, the Government of India mandated iodization of edible salt and integrated it in the Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006. Conducive policy environment, coupled with sustained ...

CEBU, Philippines - The National Nutrition Council (NNC) hopes that newly-elected officials, especially local chief executives, will strictly implement salt iodization in their respective local ...

Iodization didn’t kill the local salt industry; it was merely one of the nails in the coffin. The sector had simply been taken for granted and died a slow death over several decades. This much I ...

BAGUIO CITY (PIA) — The Regional Bantay Asin Task Force- Cordillera led by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) recently conducted monitoring of salt iodization plants in Baguio City and Benguet to ...

The new law makes the iodization of locally produced salt optional in some cases, and increases the number of salt farms in the Philippines. MANILA, Philippines – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.