Draft Urgent Law on Adding Potassium Iodide or Potassium Iodate to Table or Cooking Salt, Put into Effect

Type

Law enacted by Decree

Number

1781

Date of the text

01/09/1971

Official Gazette

published in 1971

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

11

What it provides

This law requires potassium iodide or potassium iodate to be added to table and cooking salt throughout Lebanon, sets permitted iodine levels for locally made and imported salt, bans marketing of non-compliant salt, and prescribes the name for iodized salt.

What has changed this text

• Repealed by Law No. 178/2011 of 29/08/2011

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1971. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.