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Pet Food Ingredients

High accuracy batching of dry ingredients for wet pet food applications

Automated material handling methods greatly improve overall pet food safety.

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Pet food ingredient insights for new product development

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Pet food ingredient insights for new product development

Diet, genetics play roles in canine DCM; Mysteries remain

Among more than 150 published studies related to DCM, researchers didn’t find any firm connection among cases of DCM and grain-free dog food.

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Confront DCM with dog food supplements, DNA tests

While scientists still have much to learn about what causes dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs, pet food companies do have tools to deal with DCM while researchers look for answers.

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DCM study: no link to grain-free pet food, no closure

FDA’s investigation into a possible link between grain-free pet food and DCM, and its handling of the situation, has yielded no answers, only frustration.

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Allergy-fighting cat food safe in feeding trials

Cat allergies affect an estimated 12.1% of people older than 6, but a cat food coating derived from chicken eggs may help those folks embrace felines without sneezing fits.

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DCM connection to grain-free dog food not found in review

More than 150 published studies didn’t reveal to researchers any firm connection between cases of canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and grain-free dog food.

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3 pet food ingredient categories: outlook through 2020

Though the pet food supply chain experienced some disruptions with poultry, rendered proteins and grains, they seem to have been localized and short term.

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Americans feel ‘guilty’ about kibble odor; French ‘joyful’

Among the pet owners of Brittany of France, Kansas in the Unites States and Réunion Island, off the east coast of Africa, scientists found differences in people’s psychological reactions to dog and cat food.

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New pet food product development perseveres in pandemic

Although the COVID-19 pandemic slowed many aspects of the global economy, while taking hundreds of thousands of lives, the pet food industry found ways to adapt.

‘Beautiful system’ supplies by-products to make pet food

Before recycling even entered the English language, some pet food and animal feed ingredient companies reduced the amount of waste produced by reusing byproducts of the human food system.

Pet food industry disconnected from public on byproducts

Byproduct usage serves as a huge sustainability story for the pet food industry, one executive said. People in the industry take for granted that others know the same.

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AAFCO to require qualification of the term ‘buffalo’

New requirements from AAFCO regarding the term "buffalo" will require label updates, and there is currently no grace period for enforcement.

In the U.S., North American buffalo are also called bison (left). In other countries, however, “buffalo” is more commonly used to refer to water buffalo (right). | (volkova natalia | Shutterstock.com and WoraponL | Shutterstock.com)

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