Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Iodized salt


Related Topics

  
  Iodized Salt in the United States
Iodized salt came on the market in Cleveland in 1925 (Ref. 2) and Ohio families were encouraged by many health and educational agencies to begin the regular use of iodized salt (Ref. 9).
Also, many adults with hyperthyroidism who used iodized salt had other conditions that seemed more important in the etiology of hyperthyroidism than the use of iodized salt such as pregnancy, severe throat infection, and severe nerve strain or shock which is often seen as a forerunner of this disease (Ref. 3).
Iodized salt for the prophylaxis of endemic goiter.
www.saltinstitute.org /idd.html   (1182 words)

  
 Iodized Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iodizing salt means that iodine is added to salt in the form of potassium iodate.
Salt was chosen because it is used by almost everyone.
Today, many countries require the iodination of salt (it is optional in the United States), and goiter has been all but eradicated in developed countries.
www.hhp.ufl.edu /faculty/pbird/keepingfit/ARTICLE/iodized.htm   (220 words)

  
 Cook's Thesaurus: Salt
Salt connoisseurs, though, often prefer to use Kosher salt for cooking, and sea salt for table use.
Specialized salts include pickling salt, which is free of the additives that turn pickles dark and the pickling liquid cloudy, and rock salt, used primarily to de-ice driveways and make ice cream.
Salt aficionados counter that French sea salt has a much softer and fresher flavor than ordinary table salt, and that the difference is worth it.
www.foodsubs.com /Salt.html   (2149 words)

  
 Actions and Their Efficiency Aimed at Iodized Salt Production Increase, Its Sale and Consumption in Ukraine
Iodized salt is not produced for farming animals due to lack of demand.
Continuous salt iodization is performed automatically, with manual addition the iodine fortificant solution to the vessel and by using a flow of salt of the appropriate ground size and grade, feeder, dosing pump, injectors, two-shaft mixer, and control and automation devices.
Continuous salt iodization is performed automatically, with manual adding the iodine fortificant to the vessel and by using a flow of salt of the appropriate ground size and grade, feeder, dosing pump, injectors, mixer, and control and automation devices.
www.webiodine.com /dl/engl/html/report/SSA_report_Ukr_ENGL.htm   (1845 words)

  
 Iodized Salt
Salt fortification is a highly cost-effective method of ensuring that everyone receives a steady and continuous iodine supply.
Salt has become the most accepted food for iodine fortification because it is one of the few commodities that is almost universally consumed by all sections of a community, and at approximately the same level throughout the year, irrespective of economic level.
When Albania's sole salt production facility was bombed, the PSI office there worked with a Greek salt manufacturer to import iodized salt, and to do so in product packaging specifically designed for the Albanian market, one with a readily identifiable iodized salt logo.
www.psi.org /our_programs/products/iodized_salt.html   (510 words)

  
 Possible effects of iodized salt on the taste, colour and consistency of traditional pickles
The present study was conducted to identify the effect of iodized salt on the colour, taste and consistency of traditionally prepared pickles.
The mean difference between the pickled cucumber with iodized salt and the pickled cucumber with non-iodized salt for each sensory characteristics was not statistically significant at the 0.05 level of significance.
The mean difference between the iodized pickled mixed vegetables and the non-iodized pickled mixed vegetables was not statistically significant at the 0.05 level of significance (Table 3).
www.emro.who.int /Publications/EMHJ/0202/05.htm   (1267 words)

  
 Iodized Salt
Salt producers are a key partner in combating Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) today throughout the world as agreed at a recent major IDD summit in Beijing (1 2).
David Marine (1880-1976) is the "father" of iodized salt in the United States; fortifying salt pioneered the approach of adding nutrients to foods.
Loss of iodine from iodized salt produced and sold in the United States is not a concern because producers use moisture-proof packaging and add stabilizers; and storage conditions in the grocery distribution system are suitable.
saltinstitute.org /37.html   (1211 words)

  
 NRDC Technology offer-FREE FLOWING IODISED SALT
Common salt is always associated with many impurities and some of them are hygroscopic in nature and therefore when powdered to the requisite grain size it may not be free flowing which is a much required property.
The salt obtained by this process is a free flow iodised salt which is almost similar to physical as well as chemical properties to salt obtained by forced evaporation techniques.
The process involves loading of the raw salt to grinders, washing in a wash column, draining of wash liquor, submerging washed salt crystals in solution containing iodating and anticaking chemicals, loading of wet washed salt to mechanical devices, removal of solution from salt in mechanical devices, drying, sieving and packing.
www.nrdcindia.com /pages/iosalt.htm   (461 words)

  
 Social Marketing Iodized Salt in Pakistan
Teachers are trained to educate elementary school children and their families about the benefits of iodized salt; children are given "fun" testing kits that they use to test their family's salt-if it turns purple, it's iodized.
Salt processors have begun an impressive array of their own promotional activities, including giveaways and prize schemes for consumers and distributors, mass media advertising, participation in fairs, sports events, and seminars.
A salt processor who has purchased mixing equipment, packaging and other items is far more likely to iodize his salt, to iodize correctly and consistently, and to continue to iodize, than a processor who has simply received equipment and materials free of charge via a government or donor subsidy.
www.psi.org /resources/pubs/salt.html   (1279 words)

  
 International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iodized salt programs and iodized oil supplements are the most common tools in the fight against IDD.
In the United States, you can buy salt that is either iodized or not iodized, and the price is the same; about 50% of all the salt sold in the U.S. is iodized.
Iodized oil is most useful when the iodine deficiency is severe, when immediate correction is important, and when iodized salt is not yet available.
indorgs.virginia.edu /iccidd/aboutidd.htm   (3238 words)

  
 Salt: Don't Ban It Entirely
Salt is bad for blood pressure but good for brain development, researchers say.
It's the iodine in iodized salt that helps the body make thyroid hormone, which is critical to an infant's brain development.
Iodized salt is rarely found in canned, frozen, or boxed food, says Maberly.
foxnews.webmd.com /content/article/94/102729.htm?src=rss_foxnews   (432 words)

  
 Iodized Salt for Animal Consumption   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Salt is the predominant vehicle for providing supplemental iodine for farm animals.
Salt iodized with both iodide and iodate are equally available to livestock.
If only the salt for human consumption is iodized, the non-iodized salt, which is cheaper than iodized salt, is also available in the market for animal consumption.
indorgs.virginia.edu /iccidd/iodman/iodman17.htm   (725 words)

  
 Stability of Iodine in Iodized Salt
Salt is produced from sea water, rock salt deposits and lake sediments, by solar evaporation of brines and dry or solution mining of rock salt deposits.
A comprehensive review of the literature by Kelly (1953) concluded that the stability of iodine in salt is determined by (i) the moisture content of the salt and the humidity of the atmosphere (ii) light, (iii) heat (iv) impurities in the salt (v) alkalinity or acidity (vi) the form in which the iodine is present.
Salt samples were analyzed at the start of the experimental series, and after 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12 months of storage.
www.chem-eng.toronto.edu /~diosady/sltstblty.html   (3040 words)

  
 White iodized salt
The daily use of the iodized salt can prevent from the development of the lack of iodine, but does not result in superfluous accumulation of iodine in an organism, allergies on the iodized salt does not happen.
Numerous experiments on preparation of the vegetables, lead with use of the iodized salt, reached with potassium iodide, have shown that on taste, consistence and color of salted products the iodized salt does not exert any negative influence.
Therefore for the prevention from the goitrous illnesses it is necessary to add in the table salt an element of potassium iodide (25 mg on 1 kg of salt).
www.llg.ru /en/pish_sol.php   (441 words)

  
 Universal Salt Iodization Resource Kit - Salt Industry
She also addressed the need for uniform salt specifications including the iodine content to facilitate cross border trade and to ensure that quality iodized salt was available to all consumers.
A meeting of salt producers was held, during a recess, and a plan of action was agreed to progress the possible establishment of a regional salt producers association.
Encourage salt suppliers to market iodized salt by means of a thoroughly prepared marketing strategy, emphasizing the benefit of iodized salt in the most appropriate manner, using a positive and continuous dynamic advertising process.
www.micronutrient.org /Salt_CD/6.0_saltindustry/6.9_mombasa   (4281 words)

  
 Heating Iodized Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iodized salt is NaCl + 0.01% NaI (sodium iodide) NaI is ions Na+, I- Oxidation by air: short form: 2 I- + 02 (gas) --> O2(2-) + I2 (gas) long form: 2 NaI(NaCl) + O2 (gas) --> Na2O2(NaCl) + I2 (trapped gas or dissolved solid) (instead of Na2O2 it might be Na2O or NaOH.
Jim Swenson ===================================================== Jennifer, Perhaps the (potassium) iodide in the salt is being oxidized to form free molecular iodine.
Regards, ProfHoff 827 ===================================================== Iodized salt contains iodine in the form of sodium or potassium iodide.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/chem03/chem03233.htm   (326 words)

  
 Salt Fix
Salt is probably the safest and the most forgiving of all the drug or chemical treatments available for our fish.
In a salt dip treatment, pond fish are placed, for a short period of time, in water that has a high concentration of salt (see sidebar for different types of salt treatments).
Salt is evenly distributed in the pond, so when you perform a water change you must proportionally return the salt to the pond.
www.pondarama.com /html/salt_fix.html   (2480 words)

  
 Why Use Iodized Salt?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iodized salt is salt fortified with iodine at levels above the natural state.
Iodized salt is just like ordinary salt used to season and make food taste good.
Just like any other food, iodized salt can be bought in groceries, supermarkets, sari-sari stores and even in health centers nationwide.
www.fnri.dost.gov.ph /wp/iodized.htm   (546 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions - Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Salt comes in a number of different varieties, and very little of what is produced in the U.S. is intended for use in food.
This type of salt comes in large chunky crystals and is intended primarily for use in home ice cream churns to lower the temperature of the ice filled water in which the churn sits.
The reason it is called "solar" and sometimes "sea salt" is that it is produced by evaporation of sea water in large ponds in various arid areas of the world.
www.usaemergencysupply.com /faq/salt.php   (1089 words)

  
 Go Ask Alice!: What's up with iodized salt - Is it better for you than regular salt?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Salt water seafood (e.g., sea trout, lobster, haddock, shrimp, and shark), sea vegetables (such as seaweed, including kelp, hijiki, arame, nori, and laver), vegetables grown in iodine containing soil (found on any land that was previously under the sea), and animals grazing on plants growing in iodine rich soil all are good sources.
Salt fortification was initiated in the U.S. to eliminate goiter, a disease of the thyroid gland resulting from iodine deficiency.
However, salt is still iodized because iodine levels can vary greatly in foods (as levels of iodine in the soil are quite variable), and fortification offers a margin of safety.
www.goaskalice-cms.org /2234.html   (649 words)

  
 Iodised salt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iodized salt is table salt mixed with a minute amount of iodide salts to help reduce the chance of iodine deficiency, which can lead to thyroid gland problems, the most common being goiter.
Iodized salt is a cheap and effective way of distributing the vital element.
Iodized salt is more common in the United States, Australia and New Zealand than Britain, where iodised milk is more popular.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iodized_salt   (196 words)

  
 The Skeptical Aquarist
Solutions of salt-- sometimes right up to marine concentrations (35 parts per thousand)-- are recommended as a short-term prophylactic bath for half an hour to remove parasites from gills, from fins and the outer surface of the epidermis, as Mr.
So if iodized salt were used in the pond, the iodide concentration would be roughly 400 times higher than if sea salt were used to produce the same salinity.
Salt concentration in the water affects the cells' ability both to retain water and solutes or to expell water or solutes: a more dilute solution--— freshwater, for example--— tends to diffuse across a membrane into a more concentrated solution, such as fish blood.
www.skepticalaquarist.com /docs/health/salt.shtml   (4003 words)

  
 Iodized Salt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Most medical advise now states that iodine in salt is no longer necessary due to our food sources arising from all over the world.
Iodine is available in seafood, and goiter (or goître) used to be found particularly in montaineous regions and areas far from salt water.
Prevention of iodine deficiency is most simply done by eating seafood regularly or by the use of iodized salt.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/bio99/bio99535.htm   (634 words)

  
 KARACHI: Availability of iodized salt at cheap rates urged -DAWN - Local; 08 July, 2004
KARACHI, July 7: Legislation for across the board availability of iodized salt in Sindh as the only food salt at affordable rates coupled with concerted efforts to engender public demand for the same was strongly recommended at a seminar on Wednesday to contain considerably high incidence of iodine deficiency disorders among women and children.
The speakers acknowledged the significance of iodized salt and said that it was prerequisite to contain iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) - the leading cause of preventable mental retardation, intellectual impairment, cretinism and reproductive failure.
The salt processors from Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur districts agreed to establish an association in order to ease the procedure of potassium iodide procurement from the department concerned.
www.dawn.com /2004/07/08/local4.htm   (640 words)

  
 Roadfood.com Forums - Iodized vs. non-iodized salt in marinade
As you probably know, iodine was originally put in salt in an era when most people ate only local food products and people living in the heartland, far from the sea, had a deficiency of iodine in their diet resulting in a high incidence of goiter (thyroid enlargement).
I use sea salts mostly, but try to balance that by using iodized salt to boil pasta and such.
Kosher salt followed me everywhere as it was the only seasoning I could use on the blah foods I was able to eat.
www.roadfood.com /Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8786   (1147 words)

  
 Artemis Salt Corporation
Salt is a clear, brittle mineral that has been used to flavor and preserve food since ancient times.
Today, salt is also used in the manufacture of a large number of chemicals and chemical products.
With this development, the company branched out into the provinces.From trading salt, it has expanded into refining and iodizing salt by mechanized operations.
www.artemissalt.com   (155 words)

  
 26iodized   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This salt is obtained from underground salt deposits by deep well solution mining.
When this salt is incorporated into a food product, the additive is considered incidental, non-functional and exempt from label declarations under 21 CFR 101.100(a)(3).
Round Cans - Iodized Salt is recommended for use where iodized salt is desired in formulations such as spices and seasonings, canned pet foods and snacks.
www.ussaltllc.com /26iodized.htm   (356 words)

  
 Welcome to United Salt Corporation (USC) | Houston | Texas | United States
Both produce a high purity salt suitable for swimming pool and spa chlorine generators.
The Solar method is familiar to most people as high purity salt crystals used for water softening.
As of November 20, 2003 all United Salt Corp. plants are registered in compliance with the Bioterrorism Act.
www.unitedsalt.com   (237 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.