Snell and Strong microbiological assay for riboflavin (10) has been employed successfully by many laboratories on a large variety of biological materials. It is generally accepted that the values so determined compare favorably with those obtained by animal and physicochemical methods. However, it has been recognized that the microbiological method gives higher results than other methods on certain types of material, notably cereals and cereal products.It has been reported (1, 9) that the starch component of cereals, or some substance associated with it, is responsible for the high values obtained by the microbiological method. According to Scott, Randall, and Hessel (9) the stimulatory substance is destroyed by digestion with taka-diastase, while Andrews, Boyd, and Terry (1) found that taka-diastase digestion alone did not suffice to avoid the stimulating effect. Bauernfeind, Sotier, and Boruff (8) reported that stimulatory substances were removed from food materials by extraction with organic solvents and demonstrated that a number of known fat-soluble compounds are capable of stimulating the test organism, Lactobacillus casei. An ether-soluble fraction has also been obtained from blood which stimulates the growth of the organism, and a substance is present in alkali-hydrolyzed liver which inhibits it (7).