CHINIOT - Iodine deficiency is decreasing fast in the country due to the regular use of iodized salt. Addressing a ceremony during a training session organised for sanitary and food inspectors here on Wednesday, District Officer Health Dr Munir Ahmed said, “We have to ensure an adequate provision of iodized salt at the market level so that iodine deficiency level might be eliminated”. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Shafqat Rehman, a focal person of the District Iodine Programme, said that this was due to a micronutrient initiative that “we could succeed in eliminating iodine disorder to a significant limit”. Citing the National Nutrition Survey results of 2011, he said that consumption of iodized salt at the household level had increased from 17 per cent to 69 per cent.