From: dmrive@MEM.po.com
Subject: Vitamins: Check quality yourself -misconception!
Elliott:
I never said that this was how the USP did the test. I stated that this
is a way to test vitamins without the USP label. It does work and has
been tried by myself and a number of my friends and associates.
Dennis
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:23:40 +0000
To: ismnt@lists.uni-marburg.de
From: owner-ismnt mailing list <ismnt@Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject: Vitamins: Check quality yourself -misconception!
From: IntraCell@aol.com
Subject: Re: Vitamins: Check quality yourself!
dmrive@MEM.po.com wrote:
>A good test of vitamins is have the USP approval
>on the label. They say that the product will disolve in your system
>within 45 minutes. A good test for this is to take the vitamin pills
>and place them in a small amount of vinegar and see if they disolve in
>the required 45 minutes. if so, then you have an acceptable product.
Although quality control is a real and serious issue in the
supplement business, the self-test you describe is not the
USP method and will not yield reliable results of disintegration
or dissolution. This is a popular misconception.
Regards,
Elliott Goodman
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