SUMMARY
Iodine content of cattle milk from two milksheds in peru
With the objective to establish the cause-effect relationship between a geological area and the iodine content in cattle milk, and to estimate the contribution of milk consumption to the dietary iodine intake, in the present study it was determined the iodine content in cattle milk from the sierra and the coastal regions of Peru.Milk samples were collected of cows from the three main productive zones of Peru, 62 in Cajamarca, 42 in Arequipa, both in the sierra, and 27 in Lima at the coast.The measurement of iodine was made by the method of Zak, based on the Sandell- Kolthoff reaction. The median values obtained were 24 µg/L in Cajamarca, 34 µg/L in Arequipa, and 170 µg/L in Lima. The median value in the sierra, 26 µg/L, was significantly lower than the one found in the coast. Moreover, while in the former 81% of individual values were below 50 ug/L, in the latter, on the contrary, 77 % were above 80 ug/L. These results confirm that the iodine content in cattle milk is related to ecological factors. At the same time, they demonstrate that the iodine content in milk from the sierra is six times lower than in milk from the coast, and also that its consumption does not contribute significantly to satisfy the human physiological requirements of iodine in that zone.

Key words: Iodine, mineral, milk, cow, goiter, nutrition.



Recibido: 22/04/2002
Aceptado: 27/08/2003

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