Summary
Many people still suffer from iodine deficiency all over the world, but there is only a small range
between human requirements and upper levels (. 1 : 3). Therefore iodine belongs to the trace elements
of the Supply Category I (high risk of deficiency) and of the High Risk Category (high risk of excess).
Food of animal origin should contribute to improve the iodine supply to humans, but excesses have
to be avoided.
Some dose-response studies were carried out to assess the iodine transfer from feed into food of
animal origin. Mainly the transfer from feed into meat is below 1 % of supplemented iodine, but it can
be increased up to 30 % in the case of milk and eggs. In consequence of the high transfer, the EUcommission decreased the iodine-maximum level for dairy cows and laying hens from 10 to 5 mg kg-1
feed
More dose-response studies seem to be necessary with dairy cows and laying hens under consideration of the iodine supply of humans and the preventive consumer protection.
Introduction
Iodine is an essential trace element for humans and animals. More than 95 % of total iodine is
accumulated in the thyroid gland. The only known roles of iodine in metabolism are its incorporation
into the thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), and into the precursor iodotyrosines.
Both hormones have multiple functions in the energy metabolism of cells, in the growth, as a transmitter
of nervous stimuli, and as an important factor in brain development (Mc Dowell, 2003; Underwood
and Suttle, 2001). Iodine deficiency reduces the production of thyroid hormones in humans and
animals, leading to morphological and functional changes of the thyroid gland and reduction of the
formation of thyroxin (ICCIDD, 2001). A high proportion of the population in Western and Central
Europe is still at risk of iodine deficiency (Delange, 2002; Vitti et al., 2003; Delange and Dunn, 2004).
Globally about 800 Mio people still suffer from iodine deficiency. Therefore improvement of iodine
supply is still a great challenge for nutritionists (Lauerberg, 2004).
Numerous measures have, therefore, been undertaken to improve the iodine supply to human diets,
e.g., using iodized salts (e.g., Lind et al., 2002; Zimmermann, 2004), other vehicles for iodine (e.g., Dunn,
2003) supplementation of foods of plant or animal origin (e.g. Schöne et al., 2003; Zimmermann et al.,
2005), or supplementing iodine to animal feed in order to increase the iodine content of food of animal
origin (e.g., Kaufmann and Rambeck, 1998; Flachowsky et al., 2006; Schöne et al., 2006).
During the last few years, the status of iodine nutrition in some European countries has improved
(Lind et al., 2002, Thamm et al. 2007) thanks to the use of various possibilities of adding iodine to
human diets. But there are still problems with the contributions of various iodine sources.
Iodine requirements of food producing animals
The iodine requirements of food producing animals vary between 0.15 and 0.6 mg/kg dry matter (DM)
of feed according to various scientific committees (Table 1).
Table 1: Iodine requirements of food producing animals by the German Society of Nutrition
Physiology (GfE) and the National Research Council in the USA (NRC in mg/kg DM)
Human needs and upper levels
The iodine requirements of humans depend on age, physiological stage and scientific committee
(Table 2).
Table 2: Iodine requirements of humans depending on age, physiological stage and scientific
committee (in µg per day)
It increases from 50-100 to 200 µg and more per day. Pregnancy and lactation require more iodine.
The iodine concentration in human food (. 0.4 – 0.5 mg/kg DM) is adequate to animal requirements
under consideration of DM-intake of humans (compare Tables 1 and 2).
There is a considerable variation in the tolerable upper levels of iodine intake of healthy humans
(Table 3).
Table 3: Tolerable upper levels (UL) of iodine intake of healthy humans depending on age,
physiological stage and scientific committee (in µg per day)
Iodine is characterized by a high risk of deficiency in human nutrition (Delange 2002, Delange and
Dunn, 2004), but there is a low difference between requirements (Table 2, . 200 µg/day for adults) and
the UL (Table 3, . 600 µg/day, SCF 2002).
That means the range between requirements and UL is only about 1 : 3. Therefore iodine belongs
to the trace elements of the Supply Category I (high risk of deficiency from the global view) and of
the High Risk Category (high risk of excess; BfR, 2004; EFSA, 2006; Gassmann 2006). Therefore, more
information is necessary to avoid deficiencies and to prevent iodine excess in human nutrition.
Objectives of the report
Recently the EFSA (2005) dealt with this problem, esp. with the use of iodine in animal nutrition and
with the transfer from feed into food of animal origin. The following conclusions were given:
- More dose-response studies with food producing animals are necessary,
- Iodine requirements of modern breeds of animals should be revised,
- Assessment of further iodine inputs in food of animal origin is recommended.
During the last few years, some studies were done to overcome those weaknesses. The present
paper informed about some recent dose-response studies with animals and contributions of food of
animal origin to overcome iodine deficiency and to avoid iodine excess.
Dose-Response-Studies
Some dose-response-studies with food producing animals were carried out at the Institute of Animal
Nutrition of the FAL during the last few years, further studies are still underway. Iodine in feed, body
samples, milk and eggs were analysed by ICP-MS.
The paper informs about results from studies with dairy cows, growing bulls and growing pigs.
Dairy cows
In a preliminary test a grass – maize silage concentrate ration (0.2 mg I/kg DM) was supplemented
with 0, 1, 4 or 10 mg I/kg DM and fed to five late lactating cows over 14 days (average milk yield:
22.1 ± 2.0 kg/day).
Figure 1 shows the dramatic increase of iodine concentration in milk.
Figure 1: Iodine concentration of milk (µg/kg) depending on the iodine concentration of feed
(5 cows, 14 days of treatment; Flachowsky et al., 2006)
Beef cattle
A dose-response-study was carried out with 34 growing bulls of the German-Friesian breed (223-550
kg BW). The bulls consumed 3 kg concentrate per day and maize silage ad libitum. The bulls were
divided into three groups and the diets were supplemented with 0.5, 4 and 10 mg/kg DM (11/11/12
bulls per treatment). At the end of the study, all bulls were slaughtered and the iodine concentration
in some body samples was analysed.
Iodine did not significantly influence the weight gain of bulls, but the daily weight gain of the most
highly supplemented animal was 110 g lower than those of the control group (Table 4). Apart from
the thyroid, the weights of body samples were not significantly influenced by iodine supplementation.
Table 4: Influence of iodine supplementation on selected live and carcass traits of bulls
(fattened from 223 to 550 kg) and the iodine content in various body samples
(n = 11/11/12; Meyer et al., 2007)
Iodine concentration in organs and tissue samples increased significantly with iodine supplementation
(Table 4), but much less than in milk (see Figure 1).
Fattening pigs
70 growing pigs were divided into 5 groups and supplemented with 0, 0.5, 1, 2 and 5 mg iodine per
kg dry feed. All pigs were slaughtered with a final weight of 120 kg. The native iodine content of feed
amounted to 0.17 mg/kg, which is in accordance with the present iodine requirements of growing pigs
(Table 1). Iodine supplementations did not influence (p >0.05) feed intake and weight gain of pigs (Table 5).
Table 5: Influence of iodine supplementation on pigs fattened from 27 to 120 kg (n = 14;
Berk et al., 2004)
The iodine concentration in all body samples increased significantly after iodine supplementation
(Table 6), but the concentration was much lower than in milk (see Figure 1).
Table 6: Influence of iodine supplementation on iodine content in various body samples
(n = 4; Franke et al., 2006)
Iodine transfer
These results demonstrate that there are large differences in transfer of iodine from feed into pork
(. 0.3 %) and beef (< 1 %) compared to milk from dairy cows (30-40 %) on the other hand.
Iodine transfer from feed into eggs is also much higher (10 – 20 %) than from feed into meat as shown
by dose-response-studies by Richter (1995) and Yalcin et al. (2004).
Based on the differences in transfer, large differences also exist in the iodine concentration of various
food of animal origin (Table 7).
Especially the iodine concentration in milk and eggs of low supplemented animals is much higher
(Table 7) than values given in the present food tables (Table 8). Also results from field studies (Table
10 to 14) show higher iodine concentrations than the food tables (Table 8).
Table 7: Iodine content in food of animal origin (µg/kg fresh matter) depending on iodine
supplementation in feed
Table 8: Iodine content in food of animal origin according to food value tables
(Souci et al., 2000)
Iodine entry in milk via teat dipping of cows
Five late-lactating cows of the German Friesian breed were used for the study. The iodine content of
the diet amounted to 0.2 mg/kg DM. After milking in the morning and evening, the teats were dipped
in a teat disinfection solution containing Nonoxinol (9)-Iodine with 3 g available iodine per kg.
Teat dipping with the disinfectant significantly increased the iodine concentration of milk (Figure 2), which
is in agreement with other authors (Table 9).
Figure 2: Iodine concentration of milk without and with teat dipping (iodine content of dipping
substances: 3 g I-1, dipping after milking; Flachowsky et al., 2007)
Table 9: Influence of teat dipping on iodine concentration in milk)
Three to five grams available iodine per litre disinfectant, and dipping after milking, increase the iodine
content in milk by 50-60 µg per litre and contribute to the iodine supply of humans.
Field measurements
Apart from the dose-response-studies there some field measurements also exist on the iodine
concentration in milk (Tables 10 and 11), poultry meat (Table 12) and eggs (Tables 13 and 14).
Milk
The iodine concentration in milk increased in many European countries during the last few years
(Table 10).
Milk contains more than 100 µg/l in many countries (Table 11), exceeding 300 µg/l in England and
the Czech Republic.
Such high concentrations could be a real problem under consideration of human needs (Table 2) and
upper levels (Table 3), esp. for children.
Table 10: Iodine content in milk from various field samples
Table 11: Iodine concentration in milk in various European countries (Ryšava et al., 2007)
Poultry meat
The iodine concentration of poultry meat is relatively low (Table 12) and comparable with pork. Previous
data by Groppel et al. (1991) show higher values, but on the basis of DM.
Table 12: Iodine content of poultry meat by various authors
Eggs
Table 13: Iodine content in egg albumen and egg yolk from field samples
Table 13: Iodine content in egg albumen and egg yolk from field samples
The iodine concentration in egg yolk is much higher than in albumen (e.g. 856 and 16.2 µg/kg;
Travnicek et al., 2006, Table 13).
Assuming that the egg yolk weight is 18 g and the albumen weight is 34 g, one egg produced in large
flocks in the Czech Republic (see Table 14) contained 31.2 µg (. 15 %) and in small flocks about
10 µg iodine (. 5 % of iodine requirements of adults, see Table 2).
Feed supplementation
Based on previous results and the preventive consumer protection, the iodine upper level in feedingstuffs for dairy cows and laying hens was reduced from 10 to 5 mg per kg in 2005 (EU 2005)
Table 14: Iodine content in the yolk of eggs from large and small flocks in the Czech Rep.
(Travnicek et al., 2006)
Table 15: Iodine concentration in feeding stuffs for cattle, pigs and laying hens (field samples,
Grünewald et al., 2006)
10 mg iodine per kg feedingstuffs are still permitted for other food producing animals (fish: 20 mg).
The upper limits are much higher than the present iodine supplementation of various feedingstuffs
under farm conditions (Table 15). But nevertheless, there is an iodine supplementation on the average
between 1 and 2 mg kg-1 dry matter. This iodine concentration in field samples (e.g., Tables 10, 11
and 14) responses to the iodine supplementation in comparison to previous values (Table 8) and is in
agreement with data from dose-response studies (see Table 7).
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Zusammenfassung
Jod in der Tierernährung und Jodtransfer von Futter
in Lebensmittel tierischer Herkunft
Weltweit leiden immer noch viele Menschen an Jodmangel. Andererseits besteht jedoch eine geringe
Spanne zwischen Jodbedarf des Menschen und möglichem Überschuss (. 1 : 3). Jod gehört deshalb
zu den Spurenelementen der Versorgungskategorie I (hohes Risiko eines Defizits) und zur
Risikokategorie Hoch (hohes Risiko eines Überschusses). Lebensmittel tierischer Herkunft sollen zur
Verbesserung der Jodversorgung der Menschen beitragen; Überversorgungen sind jedoch zu
vermeiden. Verschiedene Dosis-Wirkungs-Studien zur Beurteilung des Jodtransfers vom Futter in
Lebensmittel tierischer Herkunft wurden durchgeführt. Dabei zeigte sich, dass der Transfer vom Futter
in Fleisch bei unter 1 % liegt, während in Eier und vor allem in Milch bis zu 30 % des zugesetzten
Jods übergehen können.
Unter Berücksichtigung dieses hohen Transfers hat die EU-Kommission die Jod-Höchstgehalte im
Futter von Legehennen und Milchkühen von 10 auf 5 mg/kg Futter gesenkt. Weitere DosisWirkungsstudien mit Legehennen und Milchkühen sind vor allem unter dem Aspekt des vorbeugenden
Verbraucherschutzes notwendig.
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