ICCIDD. WHO and UNICEF recommend th

ICCIDD. WHO and UNICEF recommend the following daily amounts of iodine intake: age o-7 years: 90 micrograms ug; age 7-12 years: 120 ug; older than 12 years: 150 ug; and pregnant and lactating women: 200 ug. Iodized salt is considered as the most appropriate measure for iodine supplementation. The advantage of supplementing with iodized salt is that it is used by all sections of a community irrespective of social and economic status. The level of iodination of salt has to be sufficient to cover the requirement together with losses from the point of production to the point of consumption including the expected shelf life. It is considered that iodine deficiency has been eliminated from one particular country when the access to iodized salt at household level is at least 90.0%, together with median urinary iodine of at least 100 ug/L and with