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International Unit of Vitamin A
An arbitrary unit of measurement of the specific biological activity of vitamin A, defined by the International Conference for Unification of Formula as equal approximately to 0.30 micrograms of all-trans retinol or to 0.60 micrograms of the provitamin A, all-trans-beta-carotene. (NCI Thesaurus)
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