Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Functions
- Ingredients
- Dicalcium Phosphate Dihydrate
- Food Additive Number
- E 341(ii), INS 341(ii)
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Additional Nutritional Value
The solid phosphate is separated and dried. During the whole process the focus is on achieving the highest bio-availability of calcium and phosphorus in animal nutrition as possible. Delfos is produced at Rousselot factories located in France, USA and China. According to the current EU feed law Delfos is permitted to be used in aqua feeds and in feeds for nonruminants: i.e. pigs and poultry. Dedicated feed mills or production lines are therefore necessary
- Sustainable Agriculture
Mineral phosphates are produced from mined rock phosphates out of reserves that are limited towards the future. Delfos is produced from bones of healthy animals. So using Delfos as a source of phosphorus contributes to the reuse of this resource.
- High Availability
Special care is taken during the precipitation process (by slowly adding calcium hydroxide) and during the drying phase (by leaving crystalline water) to ensure the best possible availability of phosphorus for the targeted animals
- Advantages
- A very high level of available and digestible phosphorus and calcium
- One homogeneous product, not a blend of mono with tri-calcium phosphate
- Natural and safe origin
- Low in heavy metals, dioxin and radioactivity
- Tracking and tracing system in place
- Contributes to sustainable livestock production (reuse of P)
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Non-ruminant feed
- Aqua feed
- Pet food
- Organic fertilizer
Properties
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Aluminium | max. 10 | mg/kg | — |
| Americanum 241 | Negative | — | — |
| Arsenic | max. 1 | mg/kg | — |
| Available P poultry | 172 | g/kg | — |
| Cadmium | max. 1 | mg/kg | — |
| Cadmium 109 | Negative | Bq/ unit | — |
| Calcium | 218 | g/kg | — |
| Crude ash | 775 | g/kg | — |
| Digestible P poultry | 16 | g/kg | — |
| Dioxin | max. 0.11 | ngTEQ/kg | — |
| Fluorine | 550 | mg/kg | — |
| Lead | max. 0.2 | mg/kg | — |
| Moisture | 13 | g/kg | — |
| Phosphorus | 172 | g/kg | — |
| Radium 226 | Negative | — | — |
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Technical Details & Test Data
- In-vitro Estimations
Apart from testing on living animals (in-vivo) also in-vitro methods have been developed to assess the bio-availability of phosphorus sources. A validated in-vitro method is a method developed by CCL (NL) based on the two enzymes pepsin and pancreatine, which simulates the digestive tract of pigs. More data are available on request.