Add Test Compounds

Simple, Safe Dosing

Research Diets will incorporate your compounds into any experimental diet and ship within 5 to 7 days. Feeding test compounds eliminates dosing related stress to the animal, eliminates vehicle effects, and saves time and labor.

Repeat Formula and Dose Response

A consistent purified ingredient OpenSource diet formulation provides a clean, repeatable control diet for your research. Precise, graded addition of test compounds to your specified control diet allows evaluation of dose-response effects in your animal model. We can blend your compound homogeneously into any diet, down to ppm and even as low as parts-per-billion.

Pelleted Micro Batches

Research Diets will incorporate test compounds into pelleted micro batches as small as 500 grams for those compounds that are in limited supply. Our production facility is well equipped to pellet small batches at precise doses.

Procedures:

STEP 1. Complete a Material Transfer Information Form (MTIF) prior to sending us any test compounds. This is a simple procedure designed to assure that we handle your compounds efficiently, effectively, and safely.

STEP 2. Send the MSDS for your compound.

STEP 3. Calculate the diet dose of your compound. Use the calculator below.

Diet Formula

Fill in Variables

Units

Single Daily Dose

SD=

DIO (VHFD) 60 kcal% fat

mg Compound/kg BW/day

Body Weight

BW=

DIO (HFD) 45 kcal% fat

gm BW/animal

Daily Food Intake

FI=

Control (LFD) 10 kcal% fat 35% Sucrose

gm Diet/day

Diet Dose

DD=

Control (LFD) 10 kcal% fat D12451 Match 17% Sucrose

mg Compound/kg Diet

We can make as little as 0.5 kg of diet with added compounds. Generally, we will require a small increment of additional compound to provide for losses during processing. We will routinely return to you the original container containing excess compound if any, or empty, as the case may be.

When sending us compounds from outside the U.S. please contact Dima Paone for direction on what paperwork may be required. Duties and taxes must be billed to shipper when sending compounds from abroad.