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Microbiological Assay of Riboflavin

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EXPERIMENTS in these laboratories using Lactobacillus helveticus for riboflavin assay by the method of Snell and Strong1 have brought to our notice the importance of the temperature of incubation of the cultures.

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  1. Snell, E. E., and Strong, F. M., Ind. and Eng. Chem. (Anal. Ed.), 11, 346 (1939).

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PRICE, S., GRAVES, H. Microbiological Assay of Riboflavin. Nature 153, 461 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153461a0

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