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Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Ulla Feldt-Rasmussen Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, and Faculty of Ηealth and Clinical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Agnieszka Piekiełko-Witkowska Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Centre of Translational Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Warsaw, Poland: Basic Lead of the European Society of Endocrinology Focus Area on Thyroid

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Adriana Gaspar da Rocha Public Health Unit, ULS Baixo Mondego, Figueira da Foz, Portugal Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal Health Investigation and Innovation Institute (i3S), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Corin Badiu National Institute of Endocrinology "C. Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

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Josef Köhrle Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institut für Experimentelle Endokrinologie, Berlin, Germany: Co-Lead of the European Society of Endocrinology Focus Area on Environmental Endocrinology

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Leonidas Duntas Evgenideion Hospital, Unit of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Abstract

In 2022, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) made a statement concluding that iodine is an endocrine disruptor (ED). We stress the fact that the ECHA opinion ECHA/BPC/357/2022 is based on their misguidedly zooming in on exclusively the biocidal products (e.g. hand disinfectants, disinfection of animals’ teats/udder, embalming fluids before cremation) that contain molecular iodine (I2), entirely neglecting the 2013 ECHA Regulation (EU) no. 528/2012 describing iodine as being of ‘great importance for human health’. Clearly, the current sweeping and erroneous classification of ‘iodine’ as an endocrine disruptor is ill-advised. We moreover call upon the scientific and medical community at large to use the accurate scientific nomenclature, i.e. iodide or iodate instead of ‘iodine’ when referring to iodized salts and food prepared there with. Drugs, diagnostic agents, and synthetic chemicals containing the element iodine in the form of covalent bonds must be correctly labeled ‘iodinated’, if possible, using each time their distinctive and accurate chemical or pharmacological name.

Article Type:
Commentary
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Environment and thyroid function
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1530/ETJ-23-0244
Volume/Issue:
Volume 13: Issue 1
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