ADULTERATION OF QUININE.

Adulteration of Quinine

Sir,?Perhaps many of yours readers are aware of the fact that adulteration of quinine was in vogue even before the war. Now that during the war its price has increased enormously, this indiscriminate adulteration is going on in a larger scale. In the mofussil one ounce of quinine, Quinine (Herrings & Co.) sells for Its. 2-8, while the same quantity of the adulterated one can be had for Rs. 1-2....

Isolation and characterization of quinine from Polygonatum verticillatum: A new marker approach to identify substitution and adulteration

Polygonatum verticillatum (Mahameda) is an important ingredient of Ashtawarga and Ayurvedic formulations. Nowadays, it comes under the category of endangered plants due to large scale and indiscriminate collection of wild material. To overcome the scarcity, substitutes of Mahameda are also commonly used in market. These additives are different from the authentic plant by Ayurvedic and pharmacol...

Quinine Bihydrochloride v. Quinine Bisulphate

come across a medical man who avers that it is a useless salt of Quinine and that the only salt of anv use for injection is the Bisulpliate of Quinine, Now, from what I can remember of the Physiology of the Blood, I should have thought that the Bisulpliate was a much more foreign salt to the plasma than the Bihydrochloride. As far as I can remember the plasma contains Chlorides in abundance, bu...

Adulteration of Milk

Adulteration of Human Milk

The necessity for testing human milk destined for milk banks in order to eliminate specimens which have been adulterated with water or cow's milk has been widely recognized since the introduction of such banks in 1910 (Mackintosh, 1947). In some centres, however, no tests for adulteration seem to be used, in spite of the fact that the mothers providing milk for these banks are not supervised be...