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I arrived at this post because I was searching for FDA iodine labeling requirements. I want thank Diane Porter for her information gleaned from the "nice woman at the FDA". because it answered my question. I too would love to see better labeling so we know which salt contains iodine when it is included in prepared foods.
But, I want to caution against promoting any mandated iodine "doping" of food. My wife comes from a country in which iodine is added to all food at every stage of the food chain (Switzerland). i.e animals are fed iodized feed, vegetables are fertilized with their manure and/or iodized fertilizer, thus all food contains some level of iodine. She and others she knows from her homeland are sick from the effects of this. There is a group which petitions the Swiss government to limit the dose of iodine in the food chain. They know that too much iodine can also be a very bad thing.
In another example, several of our elderly colleagues are very ill from the affects of using dissolved iodine to clean vegetables in third-world living situations in the past.

September 30, 2010 - 10:22am

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