Op#Fer® is economical because..

•  With a dosage of one or two tablets once per day heme iron therapy is economical compared to the alterna#ves.

•  Dosage will stay the same even over longer therapy.

Price per day is comparable with other products

•  There are considerably less poten#ally therapy-ruining side-effects.

•  This is a major problem when it comes to non-heme iron supplements. It is very common that side effects force the therapy to be terminated and something else tried.

•  The last alterna#ve when nothing else works is very expensive and inconvenient intravenously given iron since iron is absolutely vital to life.

No failed therapies

•  One or two tablets at a single administra#on per day steals no working #me. It is also convenient in other ways.

•  There are no special precau#ons over simultaneously ingested food, drink or medicine.

Easy dosage once per day

•  Heme-iron therapy can build up adequate iron storage in a natural and gentle fashion. There is no change in tolerability or efficacy over longer #me.

•  With non-heme supplements side-effects are usually, even aMer ini#al good tolerance, slowly accumula#ng un#l the therapy has to be discon#nued.

Efficacy and tolerance will not change over #me

•  Using heme iron very liOle is wasted. •  What is not taken up is completely inert in the

gastro-intes#nal channel as opposed to non-absorbed free iron ions from non-heme iron, which are reac#ve and strongly irrita#ng.

Efficient: Uptake 25 %+ vs 2-3 % for non-heme iron

•  For MediTec it is more important to help as many iron deficiency sufferers worldwide as possible than op#mising product calculus.

•  We are looking to reach large markets, not least in the third world.

The philosophy of MediTec is that market share is preferred to profit