In a report of the US-based analytical firm examining the purity of edible salt, it was found by the company that salt in repackaged form had very high levels of iodine and potassium ferrocyanide, considered poisonous to humans. It is alleged that certain repackaged salt packets had high levels of this poisonous levels of potassium ferrocyanide, in the range of 1.90 mg/kg and 1.80 mg/kg and a certain brand of salt had 4.71 mg/kg, very harmful for ingestion to humans.
These high levels can cause debilitating diseases, affecting blood pressure, heart, kidney failure, liver cirrhosis, eye glaucoma, cancer, hyperthyroidism, obesity, impotence, etc, where there are no cures.
In the rarest of the rare cases, if lucky, humans might come around and be cured. Normal sea salt is the best form of salt, produced in salt pans even in Goa, predominantly in the northern district, by the normal evaporation process of seawater when salt is at its 100% purest crystalline form, which is ideal for human consumption.
Iodine is naturally present in the purest form of salt. There is no reason why additives such as additional iodine and harmful substances such as potassium ferrocyanide are required to be added and adulterate a pure form of salt. Industrial waste salt is repackaged after a process called bleaching and then adulterated with further toning up of extra iodine and other harmful chemicals, which are carcinogenic and deemed unnecessary. Any additives into crystalline form should be banned as proper tests are not done and there are no ideal analytical test labs to conduct tests in the country on this parameter of the quantity of cyanide, considered a poison. It should not be allowed to be added to edible salt and all other food packaging products consumed by gullible people unknowingly.
