Nutrilab - diet for rats, mice,guinea and rabbits

Nutrilab® Division, a wing of Tetragon Chemie Pvt Ltd, manufactures and markets the PREMIUM QUALITY EXTRUDED PELLET FEED for experimental laboratory animals. Our feed is entirely different from that of popular feed (Dry Pellets) available in the market. There are lot of advantages our feed has over the popular feed like better nutrient profile, better stability, no wastage of feed, less microbial load etc.

Extruded laboratory animal feed is marketed under the brand name “Nutrilab® Diet” as both Pellets and Mash feed.

The elite customer club of Nutrilab® includes top research institutes of the country including both Private institutes and state and central government autonomous institutes. We are expanding our customer base day by day merely due to our commitment to produce quality feed and in time supply as we have wide marketing network all over India.

1. We manufactured feeds as per the specifications provided by the customers at short notice.

2. Only Indian company giving extensive quality and analytical data for every batch manufactured from reputed in house QC.

3. Regularly analyzed for individual Aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 & G2, Pesticides and Heavy / Toxic metals by an outside accredited laboratory.

4. The elite customer club of Nutrilab diet includes top research institutes of the country including both private institutes and state and central government autonomous institutes.

5. Produced under the guidance of one of the most experienced and reputed lab animal scientist with more than 20 years of experience in building internationally certified laboratory animal house and who has conducted thousands of regulatory studies in compliance with GLP for multinational companies form all over INDIA and world.

6. In time supply through our well-established distribution network to any part of the country.

7. As for the levels of the Undesirable Substances, we follow the Limits mentioned in the ‘Guidelines for the Quality-Assured Production of Laboratory Animal Diets’ by the ‘Committee for the Nutrition of Laboratory Animals’ of GV-SOLAS, Society for the Laboratory Animal Science, Germany which is accepted as European Standard for Lab Animal Feed.

Nowadays Extrusion Technology playing an important role in many industries such as food, feed and polymer. Extrusion is a multivariable unit operation i.e. mixing, shearing, cooking, puffing and drying in one energy efficient rapid continuous process. This process of High Temperature Short Time (HTST), extrusion brings gelatinisation of starch, denaturation of protein, modification of lipid and inactivation of enzymes, microbes and many anti nutritional factors. The extrudates are texturally and histologically restructured.

Nutrilab® Diet is manufactured using High Temperature and Short duration (HTSD) extrusion method. In this process, feed ingredients are subjected to high temperature (130 º C to 140 º C) and high pressure (Approximately 200 atm) for a very short duration (Under 30 Seconds). In addition to adapting Extrusion Technology, raw material or feed ingredients employed in the manufacture of Nutrilab Diet are subjected to various quality test by qualified and dedicated Q.C team so as to ensure better quality end product that meets the requirements.

1) Selection of Feed Ingredients and other raw materials
2) Grinding and Mixing of Ingredients
3) Preconditioning
4) Passing through the Extruder Machine
5) Drying of the Pellets (Finished Product)
6) Analysis of the Finished Product
7) Packing

1. Nutrilab® Rodent Extruded Feed
This pellet feed is meant for both maintenance and routine breeding stock of rats and mice.

2. Nutrilab® Rabbit / Guinea Pig Extruded Feed
This pellet feed is meant for both maintenance and routine breeding stock of both rabbits and guinea pigs.

Packing: 1 Kg

3. Nutrilab ® Rodent - IR Diets
Extruded and Complete sterilized feed for rats and nude mice.

4. Nutrilab® Canine Extruded Feed
This feed is meant for experimental dogs.

Packing: 15 Kg

5. Nutrilab® Primate Extruded Feed
Feed is meant for Research monkeys, macaques, Baboons.

The products which are in pipeline are Purified diets for Diabetes / Obesity, High fat diets (45 g % Fat content), Nutrilab Rabbit / Guinea Pig – IR diet, Nutrilab Medicated diet with 150 PPM Fenbendazole.

Every batch of Nutrilab® Diet is analyzed and the analytical report duly signed by our R and D colleagues will be sent along with the feed to the customers. The analytical report includes the following parameters.

1. Product Name
2. Batch No.
3. Date of Manufacture
4. Quantity Manufactured – of that particular batch
5. Date of Analysis
6. Quantity sampled for analysis
7. Results of proximate analysis
     - Crude protein %
     - Crude Fat % (Ether Extract)
     - Crude Fibre %
     - Calcium %
     - Phosphorus %
     - Moisture %
     - Total Ash %
     - Acid Insoluble Ash %
8. Results of Microbiological Examination with limits for
     - Total bacterial count – cfu/g
     - Escherichia coli – cfu/g
     - Pseudomonas aeruginosa – cfu/g
     - Staphylococcus aureus – cfu/g
     - Salmonella sp. – cfu/g
     - Yeast and Molds – cfu/g
9. Total aflatoxin levels analyzed by TLC method with detection limit of 5 ppb

Nutrilab Diets are analyzed periodically (once a year) for various contaminants (Undesirable Substances) like Pesticides, Heavy Metals, Individual Aflatoxins and Microbiological Parameters from LUFA-ITL Laboratory of Germany, a leading Feed Analytical Laboratory of Europe.

As for the levels of the Undesirable Substances, we follow the Limits mentioned in the ‘Guidelines for the Quality-Assured Production of Laboratory Animal Diets’ by the ‘Committee for the Nutrition of Laboratory Animals’ of GV-SOLAS, Society for the Laboratory Animal Science, Germany which is accepted as European Standard for Lab Animal Feed. As seen in the enclosed Test Certificates, the levels of undesirable substances are nil or well below the limits set by this authority.

Very low Microbial Count	High temperature and pressure kills majority of the organisms including Salmonella and E.Coli.
Anti-nutritional factors	Destroys anti-nutritional factors thus prevents untoward effects and improves the digestibility
Gelatinisation of Starch	Breaks down starch into simpler units and improves the digestibility and palatability
Ruptures Oil-Bearing Cells	For better digestibility, palatability and stability.
Lower Moisture Level	Excess moisture is flashed off bringing end product to under 10% moisture level.
No Wastage of Feed	Pellets are firm and do not break or don’t get powdered during transport, storage or feeding, so no wastage of feed.
Don’t Absorb Moisture	Pellets do not absorb moisture during storage or during use in the animal house
Long shelf life	Six months to One year
Uniform Size	The Extruded Pellets are oval shaped with uniform size.