The award honors UK-based companies for outstanding achievement in innovation, international trade, sustainable development or promoting opportunity through social mobility.
Raw pet food sales grew from US$117 million to US$393 million between 2012 and 2016 in the United States, according to Maria Lange, business group director for market research firm GfK.
The lab tested for 130 potentially toxic industrial and environmental chemicals, including the dangerous heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury.
For several years, the pet food industry has celebrated the market’s growth outpacing that of many other consumer goods categories, even during the pandemic.