International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders ICCIDD

Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), Ottawa Canada. 

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) have defined three degrees of severity of iodine deficiency mild (iodine intake of 50—99p,g/day), moderate (20 9 p,g/day), and severe (<20p,g/day) (WHO/UNICEF/ICCIDD, 1994). Severe iodine deficiency was eradicated from many parts of the world, but milder forms stiU exist and may escape detection. Thirty-two European countries were still affected by mild-to-severe iodine deficiency in the late 1990s (Delange, 2002). Turkey is one of these mild-to-moderate iodine-deficient areas (Yordam et ai, 1999). 

From 2003, the Thai government has declared June 25 as a National Iodine Day [the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) presented the ICCIDD Gold Medal to H.M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej on 25 June 1997]. the IDD campaign has been conducted annually since 25 June 2003 (Department of Health, 2006). 

Recognition of this problem has led to the creation, in 1986, of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) — an international nongovernmental organization officially recognized by WHO, UNICEF and the UN System as the expert scientific group on all aspects of IDD [2]. 

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda on March 21-23, 1988, jointly sponsored by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health. Several themes converged to make this meeting timely. 

In 1990 the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition recognized IDD as a major international public health problem and adopted a global plan for the elimination of IDD by the year 2000 proposed by the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) working in close collaboration with UNICEF and WHO. 

ICCIDD International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders... 

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International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorder (ICCIDD). (2007). History of Salt lodization (Online). Available from http //iccidd.server293.com/pages/protecting-children/fortifying-salt/history-of-salt-iodization.php Accessed on July 7, 2007. 

Iodine deficiency is the primary preventable cause of brain damage and psychomotor development retardation, and hence is a global public health issue. According to the United Nations International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD), approximately half of the worlds population presented some degree of dietary iodine deficiency in 2002 (International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, 2002). 

International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders-ICCIDD. (2002). [online]. Available at < http // www.iccidd.org> [Jun 06 2007]. 

Urinary iodine excretion is recommended by the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD) as the best indicator of iodine status for a population (ICCIDD et al, 2001). Prior to iodiza-tion of salt in the late 1930s, extremely low iodine excretions were recorded in parts of New Zealand e.g., the daily urinary excretion of 25 pg/day in Cromwell, considered to... 

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