Iodized salt first became available on grocery shelves in Michigan
On May 1, 1924, iodized salt first became available on grocery shelves in Michigan, spurred largely by the…
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David Cowie proposed the U.S. adopt salt iodization to eliminate simple goiter
In 1922, David Cowie, chair of the Pediatrics Department at the University of Michigan, proposed at a Michigan…
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David Marine and colleagues initiated an iodine prophylaxis program in over 2100 schoolgirls
In 1917, David Marine, an American pathologist, re-started the virtually abandoned practice of adding iodine to the diet to…
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Adolphe Chatin published the hypothesis of population iodine deficiency associated with endemic goiter
In 1852, Adolphe Chatin, a French chemist, was the first to publish the hypothesis of population iodine deficiency…
