The increasing use of panthenol has emphasized the need for a more efficient assay method. Hence, the microbiological assay has been modified to eliminate the ether extraction for removal of pantoyl lactone or the separate assay required to correct for preformed pantoic acid. In the present procedure, these interfering products of hydrolytic cleavage of
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