Poor test results 'a lack of iodine'

By Dan Harrison
Updated January 25 2013 - 2:13pm, first published January 9 2013 - 3:28pm
Consumers have been reluctant to buy iodised salt for home use.
Consumers have been reluctant to buy iodised salt for home use.

A lack of iodine may partly explain why Australian schoolchildren are being beaten in international tests by their counterparts in Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, according to an expert on iodine deficiency.

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