Once Again .... Iodine Salt

Forty million people of Indonesia still does not use salt beryodium. In iodine deficiency is a major cause of goiter. The result is more fatal occurrence of mental retardation. However reports from UNICEF.

The actual start of 1990 until 1997, Indonesia has the impressive achievement in the use of salt beryodium. Unfortunately, since 1997 up to now the use of salt beryodium in Indonesia had decreased drastic. "That is why the Indonesian government need to be encouraged in prohibit the use of salt is not beryodium," said Roger Moore, Ambassador of UNICEF.