World Health Assembly applies pressure to promote iodized salt
The World Health Assembly in Geneva has just approved -- unanimously -- a resolution offered by Peru that directs national health departments to report the status of their efforts to promote universal salt iodization (USI) every three years, reports the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD).
ICCIDD, with the active support of the Salt Institute, lobbied the issue in Geneva, contacting 17 country delegations and speaking on the floor of the Assembly. The action was also endorsed by The Network for the Sustained Elimination of Iodine Deficiency.
