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From the meeting of the National Wholesale Druggists Association in Chicago last week came an astonishing fact: at least a fourth of all retail drug sales are synthetic vitamins or vitamin concentrates. They are now the largest single class of products handled by wholesalers...
...rush to buy vitamins does not stop there. There is also a large trade outside the drugstores. War industries with hundreds of thousands of employes do not trust to home cooking to keep their workers healthy and alert. Fearing vitamin deficiencies, they also provide protection from disease and fatigue in vitamin pills, capsules or biscuits to be taken daily...
Four of the ten best-known vitamins are now manufactured in chemical works on a tonnage basis. The total annual production of synthetics and concentrates exceeds $100 million. Yet no synthetic vitamin was marketed before...
...original list of four vitamins (A, B, C, D) has been extended to 13. Vitamin B, a complex, has been separated into at least eight distinct chemicals. In addition, vitamins E and K are more recent discoveries. Half a dozen others are suspected and may soon be recognized. With such complexity, the alphabetical system of names has broken down and the chemical names have come into general...
...Ascorbic acid (formerly vitamin C), contained in tomatoes and citrus fruits, is a simple chemical made from glucose. In 1934 its price was $213 an ounce; in 1937 it became the first of the vitamins to be manufactured synthetically and its price dropped to $3.60 an ounce. Today it is made on a scale of about 100 tons a year at $1 an ounce. One ounce is enough for the daily need of about 500 adults...