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Background
Vitamin D
2
Vitamin D
3
Background on analyte
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1600‐1890s
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Vitamin D Deficiency – Rickets
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Research to determine foods that prevent rickets
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1920s
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Links between UV‐Light Exposure, Irradiated Foods
and cod liver oil and Ricket Prevention in Animals
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1932 Vitamin D
2
structure discovered
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1936 Vitamin D
3
structure discovered