RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD August 12
VO 113
IS 7
SP 598
OP 598
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800320050015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800320050015
AB SCIENTIFIC AND COMMERCIAL CONSIDERATION OF VITAMINS 
    In this issue (page 589) appears a report by the Cooperative Committee on Vitamins of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry and the Council on Foods. The report, which is admirably succinct, is divided into two parts, one concerning vitamins as drugs and one dealing with vitamins as foods. The Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry again summarizes permissible claims for the use of vitamins in the prevention and treatment of disease. The report endorses the elimination by the American Society of Biological Chemists and the American Institute of Nutrition of the term "vitamin F"; this has not been established as a vitamin and has been commercialized by firms which have marketed cosmetics containing unsaturated fatty acids with the claim that these were "vitamin F." The Council recognizes the desirability of reducing the number of types of vitamin A and D preparations in different classes