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While attending the first joint American Thyroid Association and Latin American Thyroid Society symposium, two of the authors had the opportunity to visit Salta. This begets a question regarding the causation of the goiters: is there a goitrogen in the diet of these residents or is there iodine deficiency in the region, or could a genetic defect be causing a familial goiter? Boussingault demonstrated in 1835 that salt procured from goiter-free regions of South America could be used to reduce goiter in areas where goiter was endemic ([12]). For example, it should be noted that while Argentina as a whole is currently considered to be iodine sufficient, the Salta region remains iodine deficient, largely due to ongoing issues with small producers of noniodized salt in this region ([17]). [Extracted from the article]