Studies on iodine content in daily diets and selected dairy products

Investigation of iodine in infant starting, special and follow-on formulae

“…The values were calculated according to the producersÕ recipe. Comparing the results for the mean iodine contents in the study made by Kunachowicz et al (2000) and in our study for the Polish market, they show a similarity. The range of the results for all investigated countries is very scattered with a clear variability.…”

“…Kunachowicz, Stibilj, Stos, and Gosciniarek (2000) investigated the iodine content in only five different infant formulae (starting, follow-on and special formulae) bought on the Polish market. Their results also demonstrated differences between the determined iodine content and the labelled one, and they varied over a factor of two.…”

Iodine in Raw and Pasteurized Milk of Dairy Cows Fed Different Amounts of Potassium Iodide

“…Iodine deficiency has been regarded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund as one of the most important nutritional factors which exerts a decisive influence on health condition of a population, particularly children at all stages of their development. Frequent consequences of iodine deficiency are endemic goitre, hypothyroidism, retarded mental and physical development and reproduction disturbances [1].…”

Assay of Iodine in Foodstuffs

“…Elementary iodine is liberated employing a redox reaction with Na 2 SO 3 and NaNO 2 in dilute H 2 SO 4 or HNO 3 . The RNAA procedures developed were employed for the determination of iodine in daily diet samples in Slovenia (Pokorn et al, 1999), Poland (Kunachowicz et al, 2000), in cereal grains in Austria (Shinonaga et al, 2000), in fish samples in Libya (Arafa et al, 2000), in Asian diet samples (Kucˇera et al, 2004;Akhter et al, 2004), and in Polish infant formulae (Osterc et al, 2006), just to give a few recent examples. The chemical yield of separation, mostly in the range of 85-95%, is determined spectrophotometrically or with the aid of the 131 I radiotracer added prior to sample decomposition.…”