It wasn't long ago when most of Europe was iodine deficient. It got better recently because of a concerted push towards universal salt iodization but there are

It wasn't long ago when most of Europe was iodine deficient. It got better recently because of a concerted push towards universal salt iodization but there are still some places that remain iodine deficient, including Germany. * Europe is Iodine Deficient (2003) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)12935-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... * World map of iodine status (2021) https://www.ign.org/cm_data/IGN_Global_Scorecard_MAP_2021_SAC_-_7_May_2021.pdf https://www.ign.org/cm_data/IGN_Global_Scorecard_MAP_2021_SA... * The Krakow Declaration on Iodine (2018) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140595/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140595/