Read a Q&A with the owner of the company that manufactures ReMedium TI®, on the importance of the purity of OTC injections.
Florida citrus growers are utilizing OTC injections to combat the effects of citrus greening, and the importance of the purity of OTC injections is an important point according to Tom Johnson, the owner of TJ BioTech, the manufacturer of the OTC injection ReMedium TI®. With other formulations on the market, Johnson shared information in a Q&A on why purity matters. See the details below.
The Importance of the Purity of OTC Injections
The Q&A was shared in a Citrus Industry article where Johnson shared why the purity of OTC injections is so important:
“Question: Does the purity level of ReMedium TI® help aid the therapeutic response to citrus greening with trees that are under environmental stress?”
“Answer: During the research and development phase of ReMedium TI®, several things were observed that pertain to this question.
First, trees that have been under relatively severe stress do have slower uptake of ReMedium TI®. This is apparently because the metabolism of the tree is sluggish. When impurities are present in the active ingredient (AI) that is being injected into the tree, the uptake can be even slower. This can become a problem resulting in less effective distribution of the AI in the tree.
Second, the reduced distribution of the AI can increase the sectoring of the uptake in the tree. This can result in some parts of the tree suffering very minimal relief from the bacterium that causes citrus greening disease.
Third, the decision to use a high-quality oxytetracycline in the ReMedium TI® formulation points back to some of these same observations being made during research and development in spite of a slightly higher input cost.
Again, the early research data and observations suggested that a small increase in input cost because of the increase in purity level could pay big dividends by way of increased yield performance.
Data continues to emerge showing that the high quality of ReMedium TI® can increase revenue by as much as a dollar or sometimes even dollars per tree for an additional cost of only a few cents per tree. The biggest cost of trunk injection is labor. Therefore, spending a little more for quality to maximize return to produce a profit makes good sense. Remember, the objective is to achieve the result that produces the greatest profit.”
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