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Zinc Oxide used in compound animal feeds

Zinc oxide is recognized as an essential micronutrient to both plants and animals. In crop farming, zinc oxide is added to fertilizers to compensate for deficiency in zinc or for poor bio-availability resulting from the composition of the soil. Zinc oxide is used in compound animal feeds and mineral premixes as a source for the essential element zinc. Umicore most used grades for those applications include the well known low lead feed grades Afox 72® and Afox 75®.