Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The National Institutes of Health's, Office of Dietary Supplement's Iodine Initiative was originally developed in response to concerns that some pregnant women in the U.S. might have inadequate iodine intake at a time of high physiological demand. Past and current activities include convening state of the science workshops and symposia, development of databases that characterize the iodine content of foods and dietary supplements, supporting the improvement of existing analytical methods, new methods and development of standard reference materials for assessing iodine status, assessments of U.S. population-level iodine intake and iodine status via funding iodized salt collection and markers of iodine status in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and funding opportunities for investigator-initiated iodine research. Finally, summaries of the scientific literature on iodine are made available on the Office of Dietary Supplement's website. |
