lODINE IN TABLE SALT
COMMENT IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER “No more dangerous type of legislation can be imagined,” says the New York “Herald-Tribune.” commenting on a bill which came before Congress last week, requiring all table salt manufactured in the United States to have iodine added to it. “Biochemical investigations made years ago indicated that in regions where there is a deficiency of iodine in the soil there is an unusually large number of cases of goitre. Geneticists then made investigations in typical regions and found that the goitre, a type of thyroid overgrowth, occurred as an inherited trait, and that among those who did not inherit the trait, goitre was no more common in the iodine-deficient regions than in the regions where it was present in the soil in generous amounts. Some individuals are highly sensitive to iodine, and they are overstimulated by even small amounts.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 4
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146lODINE IN TABLE SALT Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25245, 25 July 1947, Page 4
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