The NEW generation tracing system for medicated stockfeed additives
AUSTRALIAN PATENT 2008 100408 GRANTED
DECEMBER 2008
In December 2008 Doxal Australia was granted an Australian patent 2008100408 relating to TRACEDOX (or the use of colouring agents for the identification of additives in stockfeed). While our competitors have copied our innovative technology over the past 12 months, the granting of the Australian patent will ensure Dox-al Australia are the only company able to offer this innovative technology. While colouring the product has some benefits it is the use of the Tracedox technology combined with the patented BMP microgranule technology of Doxal feed medications that allows identification in the feed of specific medications.
A serious issue for farmers, integrators and feed millers has been the ability to identify if a feed is medicated without the necessity for costly and time consuming analysis or laboratory equipment. Now, by simply adding water to a feed sample you can tell if it's medicated. Want to check cross contamination? It's a one minute test.
Tracedox® invented by the Dox-al group is a unique identification technology replacing ferrous based micro tracers. While ferrous based micro tracers, which are simply another feed additive, may claim to be able to determine mixing efficiency and cross contamination, it is only the mixing efficiency and cross contamination of the micro tracer it tests for and has little relevance to any therapeutic drug or feed additive. Each feed additive has unique electrostatic, hydrophilic / lipophilic and dust emission properties all of which impact on dispersion, recovery and cross contamination.
Tracedox® is bound inside the coating used on the BMP® treated medicated feed additive micro granules. Being bound inside the coating it offers a far more reliable determination of the mixing efficiency of the actual medicated feed additive or any cross contamination of the feed additive in the following batches, where withdrawal periods or contra indications may be applicable.
Unlike natural carotenoid pigments, Tracedox® tracers are based on food approved synthetic food dyes and are not absorbed by organisms at the recommended inclusion levels. Tracedox® is incorporated into the BMP® microgranule at <0.001%.
The unique and patented preparations allow for quick visual determination of therapeutic doses as well as a simple and easy method for determining levels of carry over in non treated feeds or in transport or storage equipment. It requires no laboratory equipment and may be done by anyone with access to a clear container and water.
As the Tracedox® dye is incorporated into the granules coating it is protected from release until activated with water.
Combined with the patented BMP® microgranule technology, Tracedox® offers the stockfeed manufacturer, premix manufacturer and farmer a level of quality control over medicated feed additives never before available.