> You pretty much cannot have too much iodine.

Based on what reasoning?

In reference to iodized salt, you would die of salt overdose before there are ill effects from iodine.

What's stopping salt from having a much higher concentration of iodine than the normal advertised value?

e.g. manufacturing error such that a dangerous amount of iodine is accidentally added.

I benefit from a very robust set of regulatory controls ensuring that food products are as advertised and generally safe for me to consume?

'generally safe' implies that some small number of folks still suffer from excess iodine due to contamination, manufacturing errors, etc...

It's probably reasonable for 999 999 people to benefit in exchange for 1 person being very unlucky, but that's a different argument that needs to be made.

I guess the same mechanisms that stop manufactures accidentally adding poison to their product.

Which is nothing? There's a clearly non-zero rate of dangerous contamination in food products, in a market as large as the US, that nobody is able to fully prevent.

Simply never way anything and you'll be safe!

Like I mentioned to the other replier, a probabilistic argument is fine, and I would even agree it's reasonable for 999 999 people to benefit in exchange for 1 person being very unlucky, but that's a different argument that needs to be made.

And nobody, in this post at least, has made that argument, nor has anyone even linked to such.

Whats stopping non-iodine salt from being poisoned by Cadmium or mercury? You can make up imaginary risks for pretty much everything.

> You pretty much cannot have too much iodine

You may wish to research the Wolff-Chaikoff effect.

The article states otherwise

Well, the article brings up iodine overdose from popular medications at the time, but you pretty much can't get too much iodine from iodized salt without having consumed way too much salt.

>The article states otherwise

No it doesn't. You're ignoring the context.

You can't have too much iodine when it's obtained from iodized salt.

...because you can't handle that much salt.

From the article: 10x'ing the concentration of iodine in salt had no adverse effects. You'd have to eat salt by the pound daily to reach levels where iodine is harmful, but at that point, that'll be the least of your worries.

To be fair to the interlocuters, kergonath left the salt out of his or her or their comment.

I think that depends on the concentration of the iodine in the salt

Right, but that's a standardized fortification so any iodized salt you get anywhere in the world now would make that statement true.