Chemistry
The periodic table group that iodine belongs to.
What is group 17?
As part of China’s iodine deficiency elimination efforts, this government-run corporation controlled the production, packaging and distribution of iodized salt across provinces to ensure quality and compliance.
What is the China National Salt Industry Corporation?
This country had the highest absolute number of people at risk of or experiencing iodine deficiency.
What is China?
This country, known for it's chocolate, was the first to iodize salt in 1922.
What is Switzerland?
Deficiency of this element causes intellectual disability in children, along with stillbirths and miscarriages.
What is iodine?
Name of element group iodine belongs to.
What are the halogens?
An alternative and prickly way to dispense iodine to remote Chinese villages.
What are iodine injections?
What is goiter?
It only took 4 years for 98% of households in this island nation to have iodized salt.
What is Madagascar?
Only 57% of households in this country, at the crossroads of central and south Asia, consumed iodized salt, according to 2015 data.
What is Afghanistan?
The daily requirement of iodine for most people.
What are 100-150 micro grams?
Another alternative way to dispense iodine in remote Chinese villages.
What are iodine tablets?
Despite low intervention costs, micronutrient deficiencies still cause this percentage of GNP loss in many developing countries.
What is 5%?
A country should work with this charity to eliminate element deficiencies in children.
What is UNICEF?
No salt no problem: iodine is naturally found in this broad food category.
What is seafood?
Iodine that has become buddies with potassium can save the thyroid from this catastrophic scenario.
What is nuclear fallout?
What is 40%?
In China, the estimated annual loss from micronutrient deficiencies, including iodine deficiency, amounts to this staggering annual figure.
What is $50 billion?
A country should work with this financial organization to eliminate element deficiencies in children.
What is the world bank?
These two micronutrients are targets of future campaigns in China and elsewhere.
What are vitamin A and iron?
The thyroid converts iodine to this elemental format for use in thyroid hormones.
What is I2?
This was considered the most important success of the program.
What is eliminating iodine deficiency?
The total government investment in China’s iodization program was estimated at this much more reasonable amount.
$152 million (for context, several college football stadiums in Texas cost more than this to build)
A country should work with this international medical organization to eliminate element deficiencies in children.
What is the World Health Organization?
Diethylcarbamazine (DEC), supplemented similarly to iodine, can help eliminate this mosquito-transmitted parasitic disease.
What is lymphatic filariasis?