Mineral Nutrition
Zinc
Copper
Manganese
Chromium
200

This major value added program and its processes help ensure consistent, high quality mineral ingredients to the end user?

Dynamic Quality Assurance

200

Primarily fed to breeding stock to ensure success of what?

Reproduction/Reproducing

200

Fed not only for nutritional purposes, copper is also known to provide what type of benefit to the animal/operation?  

Antimicrobial Benefits

200

Manganese is often associated with boosting this systems response in the animal?

Immune system/Immune response

200

Although not nutritionally required, chromium is considered what type of nutrient?

Essential Nutrient

400

From most bioavailable to least bioavailable, the scale of bioavailability for all sources of minerals would look like what?

Oxide < Sulfate < Hydroxychloride < Organic

400

Increased purity during manufacturing of minerals may lead to increased metal concentrations in the final product. Expertise in manufacturing ensured a more pure zinc hydroxychloride product is now available to the industry. What is the exact product name and zinc spec? 

Vistore Zn 590, 59% Zinc

400

TBCC is one acronym used to describe the copper hydroxychloride minerals but what does TBCC stand for?  

Tri-Basic Copper Chloride

400

One of the more difficult minerals to manufacture, what brand name hydroxychloride manganese product demonstrates superior quality due to expertise in manufacturing?

Vistore Manganese 540

400

Organic chromium is often supplemented in the diets of animals due to minimal amounts of the mineral being absorbed from the diet. The absorption range often reported for organic chromium is?   

0.5-2.0%

600

Amino acid complex is the umbrella term of organic trace minerals bonded to one or more amino acids, GemStone is categorized as an amino acid complex and bonded to what single amino acid?  

Glycine

600

On dairy farms it is not unusual to see organic zinc spiked in the diet and utilized to address what type of issue(s)?

Hoof health

600
Manufacturing of copper chloride can result in several crystalline structures.  Our approach was to ensure a high quality, consistent crystalline structure every time during manufacturing resulting in Vistore Copper 580 containing what 3 crystalline structures?

What is Atacamite, Botallackite and Paratacamite

600

This government agency regulates the environmental impact associated with manufacturing manganese.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

600

Swine research indicates bioavailability of different chromium sources varies, with what form of chromium considered the most bioavailable to swine?

Chromium tripicolinate

800

Phi-Chrome currently offers chromium tripicolinate in our product portfolio and will be expanding this to include what other form of chromium in FY2022?

Chromium propionate
800

Despite an early BW advantage in the Control group, chicks fed what Vistore product resulted in significantly greater BW by week 3?

Vistore Zn 590

800

Numerically better growth performance and feed conversion were reported in swine fed what source of Copper?

Vistore Copper 580

800

Inclusion of 40 ppm each of GemStone Mn and GemStone Zn significantly decreased lesion scores when fed to broilers, indicating reduced impact of what bacterial species?  

Coccidial species/Cocci/Coccidiosis

800

An increase in muscle percent and decrease in total fat occurred during what product phase for swine when supplemented with organic chromium tripicolinate?

Grow:Finish

1000

Vistore minerals Check the Boxes on Bioavailability, Solubility, Purity, Stability, and what?

Quality

1000
GemStone Zinc reported superior relative bioavailability values (RBV) compared to other organic sources of zinc tested. What were these RBVs? 

133.3 and 127.7

1000

The relative biological value (RBV) of copper in beef steers was reported as?

115.5%

1000

Phibro offers two value added manganese product options to our customers under what names?

Gemstone and Vistore

1000

The primary focus of organic chromium supplementation revolves around improving metabolism of?

Glucose