Only 14 brands of iodized salt in Bolivia meet nutrition fortification requirements

Bolivia's La Verdad reported on June 11 that Max Enríquez, deputy minister of health, said that the Ministry of Health analyzed and studied more than 9,309 salt samples from salt companies and found that only a few of them met the requirements for nutritional fortification. Among the samples tested, only 36% of the potassium iodate content was within the nutritional fortification requirements. Of the 14 brands whose products met the requirements for iodized salt nutritional fortification, 6 brands were in Oruro Province, 4 in Cochabamba Province, and 3 in La Paz Province. Paz), and one imported brand. Enriquez, who is in charge of promotion, epidemiological monitoring and traditional medicine at the Ministry of Health, explained that the importance of iodized salt fortification lies in preventing health problems. Eating iodized salt can prevent goiter, hypothyroidism, spontaneous abortion, congenital malformations, endemic cretinism, intellectual disability, short stature and ...