The Brazilian Nutritional Policy of Iodination of Culinary Salt to Control Iodine Deficiency in Population: From the Lack to the Excess

Rates SPM¹, Capanema FD¹, Albuquerque SR¹, Cordeiro ML¹, Laguardia S¹, Rocha DS² and Lamounier JA^3*

¹College of Health and Human Ecology (FASEH), Alterosa Garden, Vespasian-MG, Brazil, E-mail: jalamo@medicina.ufmg.br

²Federal University of Bahia, Campus Teixeira, Candeias, Victory of the Conquest, BA, Brazil, E-mail: jalamo@medicina.ufmg.br

³School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Santa Efigenia, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil, E-mail: jalamo@medicina.ufmg.br

^*Corresponding Author: Lamounier JA, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Santa Efigenia, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil, Tel: +55 31 999825811, Fax: + 55 31 34099770