Table 3.

Recommended Iodine Intake.

Agency/Government	Recommendation
The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [188]	220 μg/day for pregnant women and 270 μg/day for breast feeding women
New Zealand Ministry of Health [188]	220 μg/day for pregnant women and 270 μg/day for breast feeding women
US Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine [66,189]	220 μg/day for pregnant women and 290 μg/day for lactating women
The American Thyroid Association [165]	150 μg/day during pregnancy [67] and lactation, and that vitamins for prenatal use or use during pregnancy should be enriched with 150 μg/day of iodine