Percentage of household consuming adequately iodized salt (% by 2030, 90%)

The governance structure of the Universal Salt Iodization programme will continue to be strengthened. Specifically, capacity of salt producers to regularly conduct quality assurance and quality control using web-based monitoring system will be scaled up. External quality assurance and quality control with government inspection agencies will also be strengthened using the web based monitoring system, which was already piloted in 2021. Salt used for commercial food (e.g. in bakery, hospital canteens, other processed foods) also needs to be adequately iodized; thus, an assessment of the quality of salt used in commercial foods will be conducted and private sector food industry/food service industry will be engaged to further increase the consumption of adequately iodized salt by the population. Annually, the Food Corporation under the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies conducts assessment of household salt for its iodine content.