United States Department Of Agriculture
Published: 2018-01-08
Total Pages: 58
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Excerpt from Butter as a Source of Vitamin an in the Diet of the People of the United States: By the Technical Committee in Charge of the Nation-Wide Survey A Nation-wide study to determine the seasonal variation in the vitamin A potency of milk and butter produced and marketed in different regions of the United States was begun in the spring of 1943 by the United States Department of Agriculture and 21 cooperating State agricultural experiment stations to answer certain questions raised by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council. The Committee (now the Food and Nutrition Board) wanted to be able to estimate how much vitamin A the people of the United States were actually getting from the butter they were consuming. This publication brings together the results obtained up to and including August 1945, as reported by each of the cooperating States to the Technical Committee that was in charge of the study. The data bear mainly on three questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
