Ingredient Issues

George Collings
Ingredient Issues
Clean Label Project — science or marketing?
Clean Label Project has released a report that misses the mark in terms of thorough scientific inquiry.
Amid growing concerns about misinformation, industry leaders need to ensure consumer communication is grounded in facts and scientific rigor.
Brand Insights
How to address pet food product development priorities
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Gain insight into ingredients, nutrition science, and the policy shifts influencing formulation, safety and compliance decisions.
How to address pet food product development priorities
Ingredient Issues
Managing worldwide ingredient inventories
Supplies, procedures and risks must all be considered these days when it comes to ingredient sourcing and management.
Managing ingredient supplies requires knowledge, skill and trust to ensure the final product remains safe for pets.
Ingredient Issues
Looking back – looking forward
The history of pet food is long and storied, and its future can be, too.
Pet food has come a long way from the table scraps initially fed to outside pets.
Ingredient Issues
Color my world
Artificial and natural food colorings in pet food have multiple arguments for and against their use.
As human food colors face scrutiny, pet food follows suit.
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Sensitive, clean and limited ingredient diets
Pet owners are looking toward nutrition for answers to their pets’ wellness, but the language presented in pet food marketing can get in the way.
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Ingredient Issues
Life on the shelf
Controlling all available factors from ingredients to final packaging can help ensure that products last as long as they’re supposed to.
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Let’s take stock (or broth)
Standards between the human and pet food spaces, as well as consumer perception, all play a role in trying to define these ingredients.
Broths and stocks in the pet food space have counterparts in the human space, with similarly vague differences as far as consumers are concerned.
Ingredient Issues
Eggs in pet products – the incredible option
As a highly bioavailable source of protein, eggs should be considered a premium ingredient in pet food.
Eggs are a complete, bioavailable protein with many potential uses in pet food formulations.
Ingredient Issues
Miscounting calories: Why pet food calorie calculations need fixing
Accurate calorie-counting is vital to keeping pets healthy in the midst of an obesity crisis.
Imprecise metabolizable energy calculations can complicate pet health, making it imperative that the numbers used are accurate.
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Hidden calories: Silent contributors to pet obesity
How calorie miscalculations impact overall pet nutrition and health
Overeating Dog
Ingredient Issues
Quality is…?
Various business strategies may give ‘quality’ different meanings, but it should be a bedrock of every company.
Quality should be part of every business strategy and is, in fact, core to a company’s success, no matter what form it takes.
Ingredient Issues
Pet weight management: Feeding for health, longevity
Pet obesity is a significant problem, and the pet food industry could be doing more to help pet owners feed their animals properly.
Overweight pets need better feeding management in order to live their longest, healthiest lives.
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