TABLE 8.

IDD Policy Development and Milestones¹

• 1990: the United Nations World Summit for Children and the World Health Assembly codified efforts to eliminate IDD

• 1991: the Conference on Ending Hidden Hunger adopted the ambitious goal of virtually eliminating IDD as a public health problem by the turn of the century (66–69)

• 1993: the WHO reaffirmed the utility of salt iodization and proclaimed this as the key strategy to achieving this goal (9, 69)

• 2007: the International Child Development Steering Group identified iodine deficiency as 1 of the 4 key global risk factors for impaired child development where the need for intervention remains urgent (70)

¹IDD, iodine deficiency disorder.