Getting your player ready...
LOS ANGELES — Many brands of multivitamins for pregnant women may not contain all the iodine they claim, potentially putting babies at risk of poor brain development, a new study suggests.
Tests on 60 brands that listed iodine as an ingredient on their labels found many fell short of the stated amount.
The risk of too little iodine appears greater with “natural” vitamins that get their iodine from kelp rather than a salt form, the study found. The results were reported in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
