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Declining iodine content of milk and re-emergence of iodine deficiency in Australia

Mu Li, Kay V Waite, Gary Ma and Creswell J Eastman
Med J Aust 2006; 184 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00248.x
Published online: 20 March 2006

Mu Li,* Kay V Waite, Gary Ma, Creswell J Eastman§


  • 1 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006
  • 4 Australian Centre for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Sydney.


Correspondence: muli@health.usyd.edu.au

Acknowledgements: 

Acknowledgement: We thank Dante Crisante (Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW) for performing the milk iodine measurements.

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