Iodised Salt Bill-2021 places in JS
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SANGSAD BHABAN, Jan 20, 2021 (BSS) – The Iodised Salt Bill, 2021 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad aiming toimproving the monitoring and efficacy of the country’s salt iodisation programme.
Industries Minister Nurul Mazid Mahmud Humayun todayplaced the bill in the House with Speaker of the JatiyaSangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
Piloting the bill, the minister said the proposed act will be enacted through annulling the previous ‘Iodine Deficiency Disease Prevention Act-1989’.
During the past decades, Bangladesh has done a remarkable job bringing down once-epidemic numbers of goitre and thyroid disease. In the mid-1990s, around 47% of the population suffered from goitre. Today, that number falls well below 6%, according to the bill.