Lacking the iodine can cause serious intelligence to damage The residents of coastal area need to eat iodized salt too

Lacking the iodine can cause serious intelligence to damage The residents of coastal area need to eat iodized salt too
It is 17th " in our country on May 15 Prevent and cure iodine deficiency on day " ,Prevent and cure the forum on the senior level of iodine deficiency and is held in Beijing in the whole country. Press spokesman of Ministry of Public Health, news publicity and education center director Mao QunAn of Ministry of Public Health announce the assessment result of the national food security Committee of Experts of risk assessment is called, appraise from crowd's urine iodine level and iodine intaking amount two of meal respect, our country, besides iodine area of high water, the iodine nutritional status of the residents of most areas is in the suitable and safe level, no exception in the coastal area; It doesn't cause the iodine of the residents of our country to take in excessively that the salt adds the iodine; The scarce health risk of iodine of resident of our country is greater than the excessive health risk of iodine. So continue, implement salt add iodine tactics the intersection of iodine and nutritional status of resident very much essential for raise including coastal area most area. But no longer take the way to make it rigidly uniform in adding iodine quantity, Ministry of Public Health is accelerating revising standard of " iodine content of edible salt ", organize experts to revise " the salt add the iodine and dispel the iodine and lack and endanger the management rule ".

Edible iodized salt attentive matters
The investigation indicates the intaking amount of iodine of coastal area of our country has not exceeded standard
In recent years, popularize the science that the salt adds iodine tactics to our country about scholar and the public, especially edible iodized salt, resident of coastal area, have iodine to take in, wait for the situation to pay close attention to to prevent and cure iodine deficiency very much too much. In order to understand residents' iodine nutritional status of coastal area, from May of 2009 to December, China endemic Center for Disease Prevention and Control control centre, nutrition and Liaoning, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian of food security have ' Market) The organization investigates resident's iodine nutritional status of coastal area and intaking amount of meal iodine. The result shows: The overall level of resident's iodine nutrition of coastal area of our country is suitable, and there is a proportion of pregnant woman's iodine athrepsia; In the residents of coastal area are from the meal ' Including iodized salt) The iodine amount got is safe; The aquatic products in the coastal area is not the main source that the iodine of meal takes in, the contribution rate of intaking amount to the iodine of meal of the volume of consumption of the iodine content and salt in the salt accounts for 80%, the iodine of salt is the main source that the iodine of meal takes in. So coastal area should insist yet the salt adds the iodine as the prevention and cure iodine deficiency strategy of the main fact, pay close attention to pregnant woman's iodine athrepsia question at the same time, protect infant and pre-school children against the scarce danger of iodine.

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