American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 31, 2131-a-2131, Copyright © 1978 by The American Society for Nutrition

ERRATA

In the article entitled "Lipids of human milk and infant formulas: a review" by Robert G. Jensen, Mary M. Hagerty, and Kathleen E. McMahon in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 31: 990, 1978 the text has been amended with the following corrections and additions:

Page 1010, 1st column, 2nd paragraph from bottom, Insert after (118) end of 3rd sentence: "A content of 3.5 mg of -tocopherol only/liter of pooled milk using modern methods has been reported (1). Assuming that this is the D-isomer and using a conversion factor of 1.54 IU = 1 mg D-isomer, 3.5 mg = 5.39 IU. Since only the -isomer is present, the 1.2 factor which allows for the contribution of other isomers cannot be applied."

In the last paragraph, 300 mg should be changed to 3000 mg or 3 g and the remainder of the sentence in the next column changed to: "and 2.1 IU for the 3 g of 18:2 for a total of 4.1 IU. The 5.39 IU calculated above as being in human milk obviously meets this requirement. The samples analyzed in Reference 1 contained about 3 g of 18:2/liter and we are assuming that all of this was "essential fatty acid". It was probably not.

Reference

Department of Health and Social Security, Report 12 on Health and Social subjects, 1977. The Composition of Mature Human Milk, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London. U.S. supplier: Pendragon House, Inc., 2595 E. Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto, Calif. 94303. $4.40 plus $1.00 handling charge.