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Pet Food Labeling: Page 17
Pet Food Regulations
Grain-free, gluten-free: ensuring your petfood claims stand up to scrutiny
No observer of the petfood market can miss the pervasiveness of claims such as "grain-free" and "gluten-free" on dog and cat food labels today. There are important factors to consider when making a claim in order for it to survive possible regulatory scrutiny.
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 â also regrind and recycle materials â in greater percentages can result in ingredient separation and segregation, affecting your final product.
Pet Food Market
Review board recommends Blue Buffalo modify advertising
A panel of the National Advertising Review Board (NARB) has recommended that Blue Buffalo Company Ltd. modify its advertisements to avoid any express or implied messages that competing petfood companies are âfoolingâ or otherwise misleading consumers and modify its online âTrue BLUE Testâ comparison chart.
Pet Food Market
Natural petfood a powerful, growing market
If natural petfood sales continue to grow, does that mean no legal or regulatory definitions are necessary?
Pet Food Market
Natura Pet Products to stop selling in Quebec
Natura Pet Products has decided to stop selling its products in Quebec, Canada, due to the country's bilingual packaging requirements. The packaging changes would have been a costly undertaking for the company, said Manon Lapierre, communications manager for Proctor & Gamble Canada, Petcare.
Pet Food News
The Honest Kitchen renews FDA 'Human Grade' claims approval
The Honest Kitchen has renewed its formal Statement of No Objection with the US Food and Drug Association (FDA) to use the term âhuman gradeâ on all of its petfood labels. The companyâs human grade foods are produced in a human food facility, not in a petfood plant, using 100% human edible ingredients.
Pet Food News
Global GMO Free Coalition launched
The Global GMO Free Coalition launched on May 20, 2014, bringing together GMO Free groups across six continents with a partner membership of more than 4.5 million people. The Global GMO Free Coalition, with more than 60 partner organizations, is the first globally coordinated network to address the genetically modified (GM) food and crop industry in both the media and in public and government advocacy areas.
Pet Food Market
Insights for petfood in US consumersâ focus on âhealthfulnessâ
A new survey on US consumersâ choices in human foods could have implications for the petfood industry, particularly in how these consumers are focusing on âhealthfulness,â the sources they trust for nutrition information, their level of confidence in food safety and the information they seek on product labels. Some of the findings are good news, some not so great.
Pet Food News
Blue Buffalo officially files lawsuit against Nestle Purina
The Blue Buffalo Company Ltd. officially filed a lawsuit against Nestlé Purina PetCare Company on May 14, 2014. The lawsuit, in response to a lawsuit filed by Purina against Blue Buffalo, claims defamation, unfair competition, false advertising and violations of trade practice statutes.
Pet Food Market
Purina and Blue Buffalo wage petfood marketing claims war
In suing Blue Buffalo Co. this week over false and disparaging advertising claims, NestlĂ© Purina PetCare threw down the gauntlet in terms of competitive marketing claims. Does Purina have a case â and perhaps more significant, if it does, could this be just the first step in a sea change in how petfoods are labeled and marketed? (Not to mention formulated.)
Pet Food News
Purina sues Blue Buffalo for false advertising, disparagement
NestlĂ© Purina PetCare Company has filed a lawsuit in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, against The Blue Buffalo Company Ltd., for false advertising, disparagement and unjust enrichmentâincluding violations of the Federal Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)).
Pet Food Market
Petfood industry could learn from new study on GMO labeling mandates
As yet another US state considers mandating labeling of food products with information on inclusion of ingredients that have been genetically modified (otherwise known as GMOs), a new paper looks at the potential impactâpositive and negativeâof such mandates. The latest state jumping into the GMO labeling debate is Vermont. Its legislature recently passed a bill that would make it the first state to require mandatory labeling of any foods containing ingredients that had been âgenetically engineered.â The governor is expected to soon sign it into law.
Pet Food News
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology paper focuses on GE food labeling
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology issue paper 54, "The Potential Impacts of Mandatory Labeling for Genetically Engineered Food in the United States," examines arguments for and against the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods, the costs involved with labeling and experiences in countries that use mandatory labeling. Led by Task Force Chair Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam, the authors gather factual information to produce a peer-reviewed publication that clarifies the potential impacts of mandatory labeling.
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