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Experimental Diets for Laboratory Animals

Dyets provides custom formulated diets for laboratory animals including rat, mouse,
guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, cat, dog, ferret, rabbit, pig, monkey, and woodchuck.
We welcome the chance to aid in developing purified diets for any other species
or any new scientific pursuit. Generally, we employ the American Society of Nutritional
Science (ASNS) or National Research Council (NRC) recommended purified diets.
When these have not been available, we have made a thorough study of the available
literature and then developed and tested the new purified diets. We also prepare diets
in strict accordance to formulas provided by individual researchers.

Since we custom manufacture each diet, it is a simple matter to vary any or all of the
constituents to meet individual researcher specifications. This allows us to prepare diets
with sufficient, deficient or excessive levels of each of the vitamins or minerals as well as
quantitative and/or qualitative variation in the macronutrients, protein, carbohydrate, fat,
and fiber. We also have broad experience with the formulation and production of L-Amino
Acid based diets. Additionally, we have experience that allows us to homogeneously blend
almost any test chemical such as phenobarbital, cholesterol, orotic acid, etc. regardless of
physical properties into L-Amino Acid Defined, Purified, or Cereal-Based diets.

In the limited lists of diets below, we have included links to the composition page of the
diet. Compositions of any other diet will be sent upon request. It is the philosophy of
Dyets that all investigators should be completely informed on the exact composition, by
ingredient, of each diet used in their experiments.

Please remember that we have the knowledge, experience, scientific enthusiasm, and
research background to work with you in developing purified diets specifically formulated
to test any hypothesis that you may have. In fact, this research capability is one of our
features that no other diet manufacturer can equal.

Finally, all diets manufactured by us are certified accurate by composition on an ingredient
basis. Since the quality of our ingredients is excellent and our equipment is free of
contaminants, our diets can serve as standards to measure the accuracy of analytical
procedures used for assaying individual diet components or elements.

AIN-93G and AIN-93M Purified Rodent Diets

Please note that this website reflects the emergence of the AIN-93G and the AIN-93M
Purified Rodent Diets. Reprints of the Committee Report, by Reeves, P. G.; Neilsen, F. H.;
& Fahey, G. C. published in the "Journal of Nutrition", 123:1939-1951, 1993 are available
upon request. Click here for modified versions of the AIN-93 G & M diets to meet the 1995
NRC nutrient requirements for rats and mice.

Additionally, the website contains Dyets version of the AIN-93G and the AIN-93M Rodent
Diets in both Amino Acid defined and liquid diet forms. Along with the many diet
compositions we have included caloric density information here, (kcal=4.187J) for many
of our commonly used diet ingredients. While our caloric values vary slightly from lot to lot,
they are consistent with the values described in the 1993 AIN-93G and AIN-93M Rodent
Diet committee Report by Reeves et al.

Dyets has four discounted price ranges. Dyets discounts a diet's cost 5%-20% depending
on quantity (125-1000 kilograms) for orders of the same diet (non-aggregate) at one time.
Click here for pricing page.

A description of the Mixing/Cutting Paddle^Ž can be found here. The Mixing/Cutting Paddle
was designed for mixing fat and starch, hence it is ideal for mixing the AIN-93G and AIN-
93M Diets. Blending of any starch/fat or sugar based diet is improved by using the Mixing/
Cutting Paddle. We have found, during ongoing research and development, that many
custom formulations cannot achieve satisfactory blending homogeneity without using the
Mixing/Cutting Paddle.

*United States Patents 5,354,129 issued 10/11/1994 and 5,462,355 issued 10/31/1996 to Donald H. Yowell.