There is a global concern about iodinated contrast media because they may be an anthropogenic source of iodine, and thereby precursors of iodinated disinfection byproducts during chlorine disinfection.These byproduct compounds may exert higher toxicity than regulated-disinfection byproducts (i.e., trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids).This represents a challenge for water utilities due to the unknown formation of these iodinated disinfection byproducts.This work is two folded: on one hand, it researches the effects of ozone as pretreatment for iopamidol oxidation through a sequential treatment of low-pressure UV light followed by free chlorine, and in the other hand, it applies an algorithm of principal component anal. to obtain the multivariable of these sequential treatments.In this context, a formation iodinated disinfection byproducts to iodide correlation models were developed under each treatment condition (i.e., UV-Cl2, and O3-UV-Cl2).Addnl., five iodinated disinfection byproducts were detected: dichloroidomethane, chlorodiiodomethane, iodoform, iodoacetonitrile and chloroiodoacetamide, corresponding to trihalomethanes, haloacetonitriles and haloacetamides resp.Showed that ozonation as a pre-treatment step (O3-UV-Cl2) reduced up to 53% byproducts formation than UV-Cl2.Using principal component anal., it was found that iodinated disinfection byproducts to iodide correlation models showed a better correlation for the ozonation pretreatment with a R2 = 0.9122 along with a Pearson coefficient of r = 0.9551.Ozonation should be considered as a strategy to control the formation of these iodinated byproducts for water reuse from waters enriched with anthropogenic iodine.Future experiments with different source waters should be addressed to explore the formation and control of unregulated iodinated disinfection byproducts.