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Plant-based pet food proteins’ processing considerations

Plant-based pet food ingredients continue to gain interest from consumers and producers, but making pet foods with them is not necessarily straightforward.

Plants are becoming a more significant contributor to pet food formulations. | (PPAMPicture | iStock.com)

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Can newer technologies ease pet food supply chain woes?

The pet food industry may find answers to supply chain problems with technologies in areas like protein ingredients and packaging materials and production.

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Pet food inflation passes CPI as producer costs rise

Pet food inflation in the U.S. exceeded the Consumer Price Index for May 2022, spurred by rising pet food producer costs in ingredients and other areas.

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Pet food growth may outstrip animal protein supply

Animal protein production bottlenecks were only one of the supply chain issues facing the pet food industry now and in the near future, according to researchers in their examination of the interplay among human and pet food ingredient demands.

With byproducts from a cow being used for pet food, should it have the same carbon footprint as a steak for humans? l Andrea Gantz

Toxic pet food contaminants: Arsenic, BPA, PCB, aflatoxin…

In the production of pet foods, no different than human foods, there are a number of compounds that make their way into the food that aren’t a part of the formula/recipe or stated on the ingredient listing.

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Raw, lightly cooked extruded dog foods alter gut bacteria

Those results give clues about how those types of diets influence digestion and the community of organisms, called microbiota, in dogs’ intestines.

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Insect-based pet and people foods marketed together

The human and pet food worlds seem to be converging. The growing popularity of insect-based pet foods in Mexico exemplifies this.

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Antibiotic-resistant germs grown from pet food in Europe

Microbiologists grew antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus bacteria found in pet foods bought in Europe. Although pet food hasn’t been documented passing these germs to people, a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes could be created in the gut of dogs.

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Criteria for choosing extruded dog, cat food ingredients

Certain criteria influence why pet food formulators choose specific ingredients for new recipes to be processed in extruders.

4 nutraceutical dog, cat, other pet product ingredients

Formulations using these pet food ingredients may fall under federal oversight as dog, cat and other pet supplements, especially if certain labeling claims are made.

Green tea extract has been credited with many health benefits for humans. However, it had not been considered for inclusion into pet diets until the last few decades. | Subbotina Anna, Bigstock.com

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Pet food producer price index’s link to retail inflation

As costs for pet food companies rise, for everything from ingredients to packaging to transportation to labor, that eventually affects retail pet food prices.

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Longer life reported with plant-based dog food

Vegetarian and vegan pet owners may have perceived the effects of plant-based diets on their pets as more beneficial than they really were.

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