EFFICACY OF IODIZED SALT IN THE REDUCTION OF IODINE

摘要

INTRODUCTIONIodine Deficiency- the world's single greatest cause of preventable mental retardation - had been an important public health problem in Nigeria ever before alerting the Federal ministry of Health in 1965(1). Findings in 1987 led to the production of the first goitre map for Nigeria in 1988 which reported the Total Goitre Rate (TGR) to be 67%, of which the nutritional average was about 40% (2).