A good time to stop taking Vitamin C.

On the heels of studies showing that artificial isolated Vitamin C really doesn't do much for your health comes a big spike in the price of ascorbic acid, 80% of which is made in China. The companies blame more stringent Chinese pollution controls and a spike in the price of corn, but the 4 major producers are facing a price-fixing suit in New York. Ironically, the Chinese took over after Clinton's Justice Department broke up "the vitamin cartel" in the West.

It would have no impact on the food-preservation uses, but maybe we should all be munching acerola berries or rose hips instead.

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