Improved salt iodation methods for small-scale salt producers in low-resource settings in Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Assey, Vincent D ^a,b,c   Tylleskär, Thorkild ^b   Momburi, Philip B ^d   Maganga, Michael ^a   Mlingi, Nicholaus V ^a   Reilly, Marie ^e   Greiner, Ted ^f   Peterson, Stefan ^c,e,g  

^a Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^g MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; POTASSIUM IODATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; IODIZED SALT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; IODINATION; MACHINE; MIXER; SAMPLE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TANZANIA; TRAINING; CHEMISTRY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECONOMICS; FOOD INDUSTRY; HALOGENATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SALT INTAKE;

FOOD, FORTIFIED; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HALOGENATION; HUMANS; IODINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; TANZANIA;

EID: 68149126647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-187     Document Type: Article

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