Twenty two years of IDD elimination efforts in Sudan: An alternative approach for national USI legislation is needed

Abstract

The aims of this paper are (1) to review the progress made in Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) control in Sudan since 1989, and (2) to propose an alternative approach for national USI legislation in Sudan. Although three federal ministerial decrees requiring salt manufactures to fortify all edible salt with Iodine and three states have laws prohibit selling of non-iodized salt in their jurisdictions. But none of these decrees and laws implementation was enforced. Utilization of existing National Standardization and Metrology Law (2008), National Public Health Law (2008), and Food Inspection Law (1973) provide legal frame for this alternative approach. Collaboration between MOH and SSMO to issue a national compulsory salt specification and develop monitoring and surveillance systems is highly recommended

Keywords: Sudan, Universal Salt Iodization, Iodine Deficiency Disorders, USI legislations