Exhibit 3.9

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                      PHIBRO ANIMAL HEALTH HOLDINGS, INC.

      The undersigned incorporator, in order to form a corporation under the
General Corporation Law of Delaware, certifies as follows:

      FIRST:  The name of the corporation is Phibro Animal Health Holdings, Inc.

      SECOND: The registered office of the corporation is to be located at 1013
Centre Road, Wilmington, Delaware, 19805-1297, New Castle County. The name of
its registered agent at that address is Corporation Service Company.

      THIRD:  The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of Delaware.

      FOURTH: The corporation shall have the authority to issue 1,000 shares of
common stock, par value $0.01 per share.

      FIFTH:  The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:

              Alexa D. Isbell
              Proskauer Rose LLP
              1585 Broadway
              New York, New York 10036

      SIXTH:  Whenever a compromise  or  arrangement  is  proposed  between  the
corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between the
corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of the corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the corporation under the
provisions of ss.291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the application of
trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the
corporation under the provisions of ss.279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order
a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or
class of stockholders of the corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in
such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing
three fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the
stockholders or class of stockholders of the corporation, as the case may be,
agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the
corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said
compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by
the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of
stockholders, of the corporation, as the case may be, and also on the
corporation.




     SEVENTH: A director of this corporation shall not be personally liable to
the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for the breach of any
fiduciary duty as a director, except in the case of (a) any breach of the
director's duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (b) acts or
omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (c) under section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware or (d) for any transaction from which the director derives an
improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this Article by the
stockholders of the corporation shall not adversely affect any right or
protection of a director of the corporation existing at the time of such repeal
or modification with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal
or modification.

      EIGHTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, as
the same is now or may hereafter be in effect, indemnify each person (including
the heirs, executors, administrators and other personal representatives of such
person) against expenses including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and amounts
paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by such person in
connection with any threatened, pending or completed suit, action or proceeding
(whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative in nature or
otherwise) in which such person may be involved by reason of the fact that he or
she is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving any
other incorporated or unincorporated enterprise in such capacity at the request
of the corporation.

      NINTH:  Unless, and except to the extent that, the by-laws of the
corporation shall so require, the election of directors of the corporation need
not be by written ballot.

      TENTH:  The corporation hereby confers the power to adopt, amend or repeal
bylaws of the corporation upon the directors.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of July,
2000.


                                                        /s/ Alexa D. Isbell
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                                                        Sole Incorporator