Optaflexx^®

• Optaflexx is a feed ingredient fed to cattle during the final stage* of the finishing period to:
  • Increase live weight gain
  • Improve feed efficiency
  • Increase red meat yield
• Optaflexx delivers higher performance all the way to closeout and added benefits throughout the food chain.
  • Maintains beef's natural taste, tenderness and juiciness
  • Minimal impact on marbling score or quality grade
  • Meets US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) stringent standards for animal, environmental and food safety
  • Delivered in the feed; no withdrawal period before marketing
• Optaflexx is a Finishing Improvement Technology™
  • For producers — Optaflexx improves production efficiencies and red meat yield
  • For the meat industry — Optaflexx increases the pounds of closely trimmed, boneless, retail cuts while maintaining eating quality
  • For consumers — Optaflexx meets FDA's stringent safety standards while maintaining beef's natural taste, tenderness and juiciness
• Optaflexx is available in 25-lb bags via traditional distribution outlets for animal health feed ingredients.

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*Optaflexx is approved for feeding during the last 28 to 42 days prior to harvest to be fed at 8.2 to 24.6 g/ton to provide 70 to 430 mg/hd/d for the last 28 to 42 days on feed.

*For increased rate of weight gain, improved feed efficiency and increased carcass leanness: Feed Optaflexx during the last 28 to 42 days prior to harvest at 9.8 to 24.6 g/ton to provide 90 to 430 mg/hd/d.

Finishing Improvement Technologies™ is a trademark of Elanco.

Optaflexx^® is a registered trademark for Elanco's brand of ractopamine hydrochloride.