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Table 1 Diet ingredient price per 100 kg and supplier

From: Cost-effective larval diet mixtures for mass rearing of Anopheles arabiensis Patton (Diptera: Culicidae)

Ingredient

Code

Supplier

Price of 100 kg (USD)

Cost ratio compared with BLP

Proportion (w/w) in the IAEA diet (%)

Account in the IAEA diet cost (%)

Bovine liver powder

BLP

MP Biomedicals, Solon, OH

6300

1.00

50

98.75

Tuna meal

TM

T.C. Union Agrotech

80

78.75

50

1.25

Breyer’s yeast

BY

MP Biomedicals

1000

6.30

0

0

Chickpea flour

CP

TRS Asian’s fitness foods

328.26

19.19

0

0

Vanderzant vitamin

VM

BioServ

2800

2.25

Additive