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Pet Food Market

Enforcing pet food safety: a kinder, gentler FDA?

FDA is trying to change its culture from simply enforcing to nurturing industry compliance. The aim is to educate while they regulate, the agency says.

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

Pet Food Regulations

6 things you need to know about FSMA pet food safety rule

The countdown starts soon for pet food manufacturers to comply with the animal feed preventive control rule under FSMA. Here are the key requirements.

Michael Pettigrew; Fotolia.com | The animal feed preventive control rule under FSMA has six main elements with which pet food manufacturers must comply.

Pet food and feed meeting focuses on feed safety rule

Now that the pet food and feed preventive controls rule under FSMA is final, FDA wants to work with industry to implement and enforce it, FDA leaders said.

Pet Food Safety

AFIA to host FSMA training session

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) will host a one-day Food Safety Modernization Act Phase III "The Future is Now" training on Dec. 8, 2015.

Pet Food Safety

More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 2015

More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen have been rescued in 2015 as a result of an Associated Press investigation into forced labor on fishing boats in Asia.

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Pet Food Safety

AFIA to co-host free Food Safety Modernization Act webinar

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) will co-host a free Food Safety Modernization Act webinar Wednesday, October 7, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. EDT. The program will provide an overview on what managers should know about the "Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals" rule, which will be published in the Federal Register Sept. 17.

Pet Food Market

Spotlight is on pet food supply chains

More than ever, pet food companies need to focus on all aspects of their supply chains—safety, environmental, social—or risk becoming a target for lawyers.

Pet Food Safety

Key elements of final FSMA pet food safety rule

New Food Safety Modernization Act rule requires pet food plants to follow current good manufacturing practices and written preventive controls plans.

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AFIA pleased with final rule on CGMPs for animal food

Upon the release of the Food Safety Modernization Act "Current Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard Analysis and Preventive Controls for Food for Animals" final rule by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has provided the following statement based on its initial reaction and brief overview.

Pet Food Product Database

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Pet Food Market

Are you ready to greet the FDA pet food safety inspector?

Consumers can easily report a possible pet food safety issue directly to FDA. If that happens with your product, you are likely to hear from the agency.

Company sheds light on stored product insects

McCloud Services, a leading pest management company servicing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Wisconsin, is generating awareness on stored product insects (SPIs) and the threat they cause to grain-based foods, especially pet foods. Common SPIs include indianmeal moth, warehouse beetles and cigarette beetles and they live in the food they are eating. If populations grow, they can be difficult to control.

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