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Phytomenadione
Vitamin K1 from green plants, essential for blood clotting: isolated in 1939, it earned Henrik Dam and Edward Doisy the 1943 Nobel Prize. As a medicine it prevents vitamin K deficiency bleeding in newborns and counteracts excess anticoagulants. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, metabolites, labelled standards and other impurities.
Did you know?In leaves it works in photosynthesis as an electron acceptor: that is why it is so abundant in green leafy vegetables.
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EDQM standards 2
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
