Colourings and preservatives in drugs.

Survey of colourings and preservatives in drugs.

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of colourings and preservatives in drug formulations in the United Kingdom. DESIGN Postal survey. PARTICIPANTS All pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United Kingdom were requested to supply data on drug formulations with particular regard to the content of colourings and preservatives. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Prevalence in proprietary drugs of colourings o...

Rejoinder to Eigenmann PA, Haengelli CA, Food colourings and preservatives—allergy and hyperactivity (Lancet 2004;364:823–4) and an erratum

s for the 9th Spring Meeting. An article in a recent RCPCH trainee’s newsletter from the chairman of the trainees’ committee expressed disappointment at the level of attendance by trainees, and that those who did attend left almost immediately after giving their presentation. This is supportedby official figures from the RCPCH which show the lowest number of SHO and SpR attendees at the 200...

Food Additives and Preservatives

A food additive is any substance added to food primarily for preservation purposes and the consumer demands for a variety of safe and tasty, convenient and colourful foods. Additives and preservatives have been used for a very long time and contributed significantly to product development by the food industry. Despite the advances in the field of product development, some consumers have real co...

Distance-regular graphs, MH-colourings and MLD-colourings

It is shown that the only bipartite distance regular graphs of diameter 3 which are MLDcolourable are the incidence graphs of complementary Hadamard designs.

Preservatives and Food