General Information
It is usually a simple matter to add ingredients to a standard diet base. You can choose from a variety of commercially available standard diets as the base. One factor to take into consideration is the inclusion rate of the additive. Depending on the choice of base diet and the nature of the added ingredient(s), more than a 10% dilution is generally not advisable. The process for making these diets includes grinding the pellets to make a meal, adding the ingredient(s), and repelleting. You may want to consider using as a control diet the base diet that has gone through this same process, to limit differences between the control and experimental diets.

Added ingredients include but are not limited to:

• Cholesterol • Sodium Cholate/Cholic Acid • Carbonyl Iron (our stock or customer supplied) • Lithium Chloride or Lithium Carbonate • Vitamins • Minerals • Aspirin • Creatine • Doxycycline (See Medicated Diets for more information) • Antibiotics • Amino Acids • Fat • Any one of the hundreds of approved customer supplied compounds   (see Customer Supplied Ingredients for more information)

Contact technical services with your specific needs, and we can recommend an existing product codes or create a new formulation.