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

The Regional Bantay Asin Task Force (RBATF) in Region 4A (Calabarzon) has intensified its enforcement and information campaign to boost public nutrition and combat iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Through the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), Unicef on Saturday donated two Iodization plants with their generators to the National Association of Salt Producers and Traders (NASPaT) during their ...

AFTER almost three decades since the enactment of the salt iodization law, or the ASIN Law, some legislators are mulling over incentives to revive the local salt industry and cure the "insanity" ...

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 ...