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Shell Flour® is OMRI listed. About Perma-Guard™ This means that it is approved for use by any organic operation or Perma-Guard™, Inc. is the original, manufacturer. Fossil Shell Flour® is oldest, largest, and most experienced Kosher too! company providing Diatomaceous Earth (DE) for agricultural applications. 100 % Diatomaceous Earth– no additives or fillers

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North Salt , UT 84054 Phone: (505) 243-1460 Visit us on the web at www.perma-guard.com LIVE The waters of the earth are inhabit- What is Diatomaceous Earth? ed by billions of one celled plants NOT ALL DIATOMACEOUS AN ANTI-CAKING AGENT called Diatoms. EARTH IS THE SAME These are so tiny Bird and animal feed contain that one drop of Both “swimming pool” grade and substances such as molasses that cause the PG Diatoms Magnified water could natural Diatomaceous Earth come from the particles to become “sticky”. It forms contain hundreds. same fossil strata but they are pro- clumps that not only make the feed hard to These tiny plants in the family are cessed differently. Natural DE such as pour, but also to become moldy. Fossil the food supply for all the higher forms of Fossil Shell Flour® is mined, dried, Shell Flour®, mixed in the feed, coats each life in all the and of the world. ground, sifted and bagged. “Swimming particle making it difficult for the particles pool” DE is heat treated (calcined), to stick together. This allows the feed to These microscopic plants take the partially melted and chemically treated. As “flow” better making the feed less likely to minerals from the water and build them- a result, the heat-treated DE contains a mold due to the moisture absorbency char- selves a protective shell . As they die, large percentage acteristics of Fossil Shell Flour®. No mold these shells drift to the bottom of the lake of crystalline silica means less wasted feed. And this means or and over many years build up which is hazardous. more benefit from each dollar spent on feed. deposits that fossilize into a -like OSHA confirms material. These deposits are called that a crystalline FDA Requirements for Mixing Diatomaceous Earth (DE) . The deposits content of 1% or Fossil Shell Flour® is used as an differ in that there are over 25,000 more is hazardous inert carrier or anti-caking agent in animal varieties of Diatoms. They have their own to your health and feeds in an amount not exceed 2 percent by unique shape, and each deposit, depending to the health of weight of total ration. upon conditions, may include various Diatomaceous Earth Deposit your animals. types of impurities mixed in with the This means, when mixing, that in shells. In some cases the deposits are mere- Fossil Shell Flour® contains less than every one hundred pounds of feed, 2 pounds ly made useless by this foreign material, half of one percent crystalline silica. of feed is replaced by 2 pounds of Fossil but in others, the deposit becomes danger- Shell Flour® . All regulated products are sold ous. There may be, for example, a danger- Some DE deposits contain a large by the information on the label. When ously high amount of arsenic in the percentage of clay and are therefore less asked about other benefits, it is made clear deposit. Very rarely, a deposit is laid effective , and may leave a residue in the that no other claims are made by the company. down under circumstances where there is body with daily, long term use. Salt water

virtually no impurities. Perma-Guard's diatoms are inconsistent in shape and more

Fossil Shell Flour® is taken from one of fragile making them less effective. These these rare deposits. salt water deposits are often compromised in purity due to tidal variations. The barrel shape, the purity of the deposit and hard-

ness of the , plus the correct milling process are what makes Perma-Guard superior.