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Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards

Vitamin A

A fat-soluble vitamin (retinol and its derivatives) essential for vision, growth, skin and immune defences; it was discovered in 1913 and its chemical structure was described in 1931 by chemist Paul Karrer. This family brings together pharmacopoeial impurities, labelled standards and other impurities.

Did you know?In 1913 two American groups discovered it almost together and published in the same issue of the same journal: the credit went to Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis, who had sent in their paper three weeks earlier.

EDQM standards 1

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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