Scurvy people in the developing world and the homeless. There have been outbreaks of the condition in refugee camps. Case reports in the developing world of those with poorly healing wounds have occurred. Notable human dietary studies of experimentally induced scurvy have been conducted on conscientious objectors during World War II in Britain and on Iowa state prisoner volunteers in the late 1960s. These studies both found that all obvious symptoms of scurvy previously induced by an experimental scorbutic diet with extremely low vitamin C content could be completely reversed by additional vitamin C supplementation of only 10 mg per day.
Vitamin D deficiency in Australia Australian Standard 2.4.2. It is mandatory for all food manufacturing companies producing table spreads like butter and margarine to have no less than 55 mg/kg of vitamin D, as a response to a growing public health requirements. In response to recent advances, public policies are being reconsidered to ensure vitamin D is evidently being measured. With the vitamin D deficiency resurfacing the nutrient reference value guidelines were established, in turn creating the dietary vitamin D recommendations. The dietary vitamin D guidelines are assuming limited exposure to UVB sunlight are: Infants, Children and Adults < 50 years: 5 µg/day Adults >