Under austerity and Socialism, Britons have been getting their pep and stamina less & less from good old-fashioned beefsteak, more & more from vitamin pills. Last week it seemed as if even their vitamins were letting them down.
This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer,* began testing vitamin products taken from the shelves of Birmingham pharmacies. His report: 42% of the samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good. In some shops, he found vitamin stocks that were 17 years old. In other cases...
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