Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 On 1/15/06, downwardog7 <illneverbecool@...> wrote: > > International ChickUnits? > > http://www.holisticbird.org/nutr/vitamins.htm Thanks! That's what I was thinking it stood for, oddly, even though I hadn't seen it. That's so weird that that thought was actually verified. Ok, hopefully this link has a conversion factor... Chris -- Dioxins in Animal Foods: A Case For Vegetarianism? Find Out the Truth: http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 - >International ChickUnits? Feh. Sounds like one of those floofy UN replacements for the good old-fashioned American BabeMeter. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 > http://www.holisticbird.org/nutr/vitamins.htm Argh! No conversion factor! But thanks to your verification of the meaning, I was able to dig up a few other things, but still with no luck for a conversion factor. The best thing I've got is this rather vague statement: " Vitamin D 1 I.U. = 1 USP unit= the vitamin D activity of 0.025 micrograms of crystalline vitamin D3. Products assayed against this new standard (official May 1, 1951) will have only 93.4 per cent of the unit dosage? shown when assayed against the last USP Cod Liver Oil Reference Standard. An even greater difference is shown when the new USP Standard is used for assay of chicken feeds. Products assayed against the new standard show about 75 per cent of the unitage shown when assayed against the last USP Cod Liver Oil Reference Standard. In order to differentiate between the present A.O.A.C. Chick Unit, and the new Unit which is 33 per cent larger, the term " International Chick Unit " has been adopted. " http://www.mail-archive.com/sciencelists (DOT) csi.cps.k12.il.us/msg00055.html ....and the Kansas Dept. of Agriculture has this enormous list of regulations that has at least one reference to it, that told me nothing, and might define it elsewhere but the document is too enormous to look for it. A search for " international chick unit " with quotes Googles up only a few results in English. It seems like it is equal to an IU of D3, and not relevant to D2. That's my impression. But I can't find anything to clearly say that. Chris -- Dioxins in Animal Foods: A Case For Vegetarianism? Find Out the Truth: http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Masterjohn wrote: >On 1/15/06, downwardog7 <illneverbecool@...> wrote: > > > >> >>International ChickUnits? >> >>http://www.holisticbird.org/nutr/vitamins.htm >> >> > >Thanks! That's what I was thinking it stood for, oddly, even though I >hadn't seen it. That's so weird that that thought was actually >verified. Ok, hopefully this link has a conversion factor... > >Chris > > > ROTFL. And here I thought had made it up! LOL. Steph -- www.praisemoves.com The Christian alternative to yoga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 " The control group ( " control " ) was provided with a feed supplement of CC at a concentration of 55 .mu.g/kg feed (2.2 MIU/ton; where " MIU " is one thousand international units, also known as international chick units, " ICU " ). " http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5695794.html It does look like its D3 only. -Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 On 1/15/06, Lana Gibbons <lana.m.gibbons@...> wrote: > " The control group ( " control " ) was provided with a feed supplement of > CC at a concentration of 55 .mu.g/kg feed (2.2 MIU/ton; where " MIU " is > one thousand international units, also known as international chick > units, " ICU " ). " http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5695794.html > > It does look like its D3 only. Thanks Lana. What I need to find, though, is a conversion factor between ICU and IU. I was hoping that 1 IU D3 = 1 ICU D3 but apparently that's not the case. It's hard to tell though. What on earth is " mu.g " ??? Is this suppposed to be some whacked out abbreviation for micrograms? Usually " mcg " is used if the Greek letter that is absolutely not pronounced like " moo " is not an available character. This is a little confusing. Chris -- Dioxins in Animal Foods: A Case For Vegetarianism? Find Out the Truth: http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Well, the way I read the aside in the parenthesis is one thousand IU = 1 MIU = 1 ICU. mu.g is mili units per gram. -Lana On 1/15/06, Masterjohn <chrismasterjohn@...> wrote: > > On 1/15/06, Lana Gibbons <lana.m.gibbons@...> wrote: > > " The control group ( " control " ) was provided with a feed supplement of > > CC at a concentration of 55 .mu.g/kg feed (2.2 MIU/ton; where " MIU " is > > one thousand international units, also known as international chick > > units, " ICU " ). " > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5695794.html > > > > It does look like its D3 only. > > Thanks Lana. What I need to find, though, is a conversion factor > between ICU and IU. I was hoping that 1 IU D3 = 1 ICU D3 but > apparently that's not the case. It's hard to tell though. What on > earth is " mu.g " ??? Is this suppposed to be some whacked out > abbreviation for micrograms? Usually " mcg " is used if the Greek > letter that is absolutely not pronounced like " moo " is not an > available character. This is a little confusing. > > > Chris > > -- > Dioxins in Animal Foods: > A Case For Vegetarianism? > Find Out the Truth: > http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html > > > > <HTML><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC " -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN " > " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd " ><BODY><FONT > FACE= " monospace " SIZE= " 3 " > > <B>IMPORTANT ADDRESSES</B> > <UL> > <LI><B><A > HREF= " / " >NATIVE > NUTRITION</A></B> online</LI> > <LI><B><A HREF= " http://onibasu.com/ " >SEARCH</A></B> the entire message > archive with Onibasu</LI> > </UL></FONT> > <PRE><FONT FACE= " monospace " SIZE= " 3 " ><B><A > HREF= " mailto: -owner " >LIST > OWNER:</A></B> Idol > <B>MODERATORS:</B> Heidi Schuppenhauer > Wanita Sears > </FONT></PRE> > </BODY> > </HTML> > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 15, 2006 Report Share Posted January 15, 2006 Lana, > Well, the way I read the aside in the parenthesis is one thousand IU = > 1 MIU = 1 ICU. > mu.g is mili units per gram. Are you sure? The universal symbol for " per " is " / " . A period is not a valid symbol for " per. " Also it wouldn't make much sense for a unit to be given in terms of per gram per kilogram. Also, one MIU is said to be equal to 1000 ICU, not 1 ICU: > " The control group ( " control " ) was provided with a feed supplement of > CC at a concentration of 55 .mu.g/kg feed (2.2 MIU/ton; where " MIU " is > one thousand international units, also known as international chick > units, " ICU " ). " http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5695794.html But what is unclear is if " international units, " as equated with " international chick units " is the same international units that applies to non-poultry units. If they gave a clear mass equivalency I would be able to convert it into the convetional IU easily. What is confusing is the term " mu.g " which appears to be a mass unit, but isn't one I've ever seen before. And I don't think it is possible for it to mean milliunits per gram, for the reasons stated above. Thanks for your help and anymore that can be offered. Chris -- Dioxins in Animal Foods: A Case For Vegetarianism? Find Out the Truth: http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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