期刊名称：Akademos: Revista de Ştiinţă, Inovare, Cultură şi Artă
印刷版ISSN：1857-0461
出版年度：2015
卷号：36
期号：1
出版社：Academy of Sciences of Moldova
摘要：The availability of safe and healthy food is one of the inseparable conditions of health protection andpromotion. Various investigations on the nutritional and food status made over the last decade in Moldova have highlightedseveral problems in this area. In the last 10-15 years the incidence of iodine-deficiency diseases (endemic goiter)in Moldova has increased by 8-10 times. A worrying increase in cases of thyroid cancer has been attested. In the contextof even moderate iodine deficiency, the intellectual abilities of the population are reduced, which presents a significantthreat to the country’s economic and intellectual potential. Food fortification is the most cost-effective and sustainablemethod. However, the mandatory fortification does not always achieve its goals – the consumption of fortified foodsis not the same for all the categories of the population, the physiological needs in micronutrients is different for eachcategory, the content of micronutrients depends on the quality of the package, while the availability of micronutrientsdepends on the applied technological processes. The present study reflects the causes and the consequences of theoccurrence of iodine deficiencies, including the role of goitrigens in foods, as well as the analysis of recommendationson the use of food mixtures fortified with iodine
