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IN a recent report Clements and Wishart1 have shown that when cows are grazed on kale they produce milk with goitrogenic properties. Their evidence for this consists of the discharge of accumulated radioiodine from the thyroid glands of school-children on drinking the milk.
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WRIGHT, E. Goitrogen of Milk produced on Kale. Nature 181, 1602–1603 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811602a0
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