Petfood Forum News: Page 5

Adventures in Pet Food

Functional pet food drivers: health, nutrition, science

A new study from Kerry shows half of North American pet owners surveyed are willing to pay more for pet foods with functional benefits, with the key to their willingness lying in a keen interest in health and nutrition.

Functional Pet Food Ingredients

Brand Insights

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

Horizon Systems

Industry trends of using finer ingredients like starches, fillers and flow agents — also regrind and recycle materials — in greater percentages can result in ingredient separation and segregation, affecting your final product.

Solving Separation and Segregation Issues in Pet Food Blends

‘Values-washing’ may alienate pet food customers

Stereotyping people based on their demographics has become increasingly unacceptable to pet owners and other consumers.

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Study shares pet owner perceptions of probiotics

The younger generation of pet owners tend to be more invested in their pet's health and well-being.

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Industrial symbiosis helps pet food sustainability, profits

Beyond the sustainability benefits of the plant itself, the oil from BSFL could help preserve tropical forests where orangutans and other endangered species live.

Black soldier fly larvae growing beds in Innovafeed facility

Study focuses on pet owner beliefs about nutrition

The pet owner nutritional behaviors and beliefs were categorized into three distinct segments.

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Pet Food Market

Petfood Forum and Petfood Essentials 2023 by the numbers

Whether or not you attended Petfood Forum, these data points may be interesting because they reflect the strength and dynamism of the global pet food industry.

Petfood Forum 2023 began with an opening reception at KC Live! in the Power & Light District.

Pet Food Regulations

Modernizing pet food regulation: Changing a patchwork system

Learn about the pet food industry movement to update and streamline the regulatory system to best serve the industry as well as pet food customers in the U.S.

Macro photo of tooth wheels with COMPLIANCE, REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, POLICIES and RULES words imprinted on metal surface

11 years of dry versus wet cat food influenced cat health

Older cats have different nutritional needs than younger felines, and the cat foods they have eaten throughout their lives may influence their health in later life.

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Pet Food Market

Reward behaviors to retain employees, don’t condone bad

A Homo sapiens responds to many of the same training techniques as Canis familiaris or Felis catus.

photo by Andrea Gantz

Pet Food Safety

Does your facility foster a positive food safety culture?

Food safety culture is measurable and part of a system of continuous improvements

Consumer Pet Food Safety

Minimal processed plant-based protein pet food less digestible

With both plant-based diets and minimal processing growing in popularity among pet owners, the intersection of the two trends needs to be considered by pet food makers.

Biotechnology engineer examining plant of corn for disease.

3 values tell more about US pet owners than demographics

Pet food marketers can appeal to consumers’ values and may achieve more success than conventional targeting of economic, ethnic or age groups.

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