IODINE IN SALT
AMERICAN LEGISLATION CRITICISED “No more dangerous type of legislation can be imagined,” says the New York Herald-Tribune, commenting on a bill which came before Congress recently, requiring all table salt manufactured in the United States to have iodine added to it.
“Biochemical investigations made years ago indicated that in regions where there is a deficiency of iodine in the soil there is an unusually large number of cases of goitre. Geneticists then made investigations in typical regions and found that the growth, occurred as an inherited trait.
“They found also that among those who did not inherit the trait, goitre was no more common in the iodine-deficient regions than in the regions where it was present in the soil in generous amounts. Some individuals are 'highly sensitive to iodine, and they, are over-stimulated I by even small amounts.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 71, 25 August 1947, Page 5
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141IODINE IN SALT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 71, 25 August 1947, Page 5
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