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Nicotinic Acid

Vitamin B3, also called niacin: the body turns it into the coenzymes NAD and NADP, essential for extracting energy from food. In 1937 Conrad Elvehjem recognised it as a vitamin whose deficiency causes pellagra. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, metabolites, labelled standards, nitrosamines and other impurities.

Did you know?It was first obtained in 1867 by oxidising the nicotine of tobacco: the name niacin, from nicotinic acid vitamin, was chosen precisely so that the vitamin would not be associated with nicotine.

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EDQM standards 2

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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