Secretion Rate of Dietary Iodine into Human Milk

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In view of possible radioactive iodine accumulation by thyroid of breast-fed infant through maternal milk under a certain contaminated environment, the secretion rate of dietary iodine into human milk was estimated by iodine determination for diet and milk. For several hundred μg daily intake level, the secretion rate is around 10 per cent, whereas less than one per cent is found for 10 mg intake level.