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Insightful educational opportunities await at Petfood Forum 2025

Petfood Forum 2025, happening April 28-30 in Kansas City, will offer five educational tracks diving into pet food market trends, technology, nutrition, ingredients and leadership development.

Petfood Forum 2025 will offer five education track covering the pet food market, technology, nutrition, ingredients, and career development and leadership.

Adventures in Pet Food

Pet food company origin stories keep the market dynamic

How did your pet food company get started? Origin stories in our industry are often unique and inspiring, keeping the market fresh and moving forward.

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Pet food producer expands Polish workforce

The new plant, which is to produce dry pet food, is expected to be launched in 2025.

Pet Food Regulations

AFIA supports FDA’s new ingredient review pathway for animal food

The AFIC program aims to maintain safety standards while creating a more efficient process for market-ready ingredients, including specific data requirements and transparency in the FDA’s evaluation process.

New FDA guidance introduces the Animal Food Ingredient Consultation (AFIC) program as a structured, federally led pathway for animal food ingredient reviews, replacing the system previously used in partnership with AAFCO.

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EPISODE 77: What’s ahead for the European pet food markets in 2025?

Join Petfood Industry's Lindsay Beaton as she explores the European pet food market's 2024 performance and 2025 trends with Zoomark's Luisa Bersanetti and Pascale Sonvico.

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Latin America/Carribean

5 Mexico-based pet food companies in 2023

The five companies listed below were part of Mexico’s growing pet food market in 2023 and appear in Petfood Industry’s Top Companies Current Data.

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6 Petfood Industry blogs, columns in December 2024

In December, Petfood Industry’s staff and contributors covered inflation, successful pet food launching and more.

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Insect-based Cat and Dog Food

Insect oil as a sustainable innovation in pet food formulation

Insect oil offers functional health benefits through its rich fatty acid profile; consumer awareness and acceptance will play a critical role in its adoption into pet food.

Black Soldier Fly larvae oil, derived from insect processing, is primarily used in pet food and animal feed as a sustainable alternative to traditional plant oil sources like palm or coconut but also as an alternative to animal fats.

Ingredient Issues

Protein hydrolysis — nutrition and health

Hydrolyzed proteins have a lot of potential in pet food formulations.

Hydrolyzed proteins can be complex, but their nutrition and health benefits should not be overlooked in formulating pet food.

Pet Food Insights

Why companies are firing Gen Z employees and what both can do about it

A new generation is entering the work force, and with them are new expectations and ways of doing things that may clash with the way businesses currently handle employees.

Gen Z and their potential employers alike are experiencing growing pains as the latest generation enters the workforce.

Something to Chew on

The role of health and wellness in pet food today

Pet owners increasingly deem health and wellness attributes among pet food’s most important benefits, and brands are responding with more related claims.

A majority of U.S. pet owners consider pet food an important health product for their furry family members.

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AI has entered the pet food chat: Where will it land?

The evolving capabilities of AI may provide future opportunities for the pet food industry.

AI in the pet food space is on the move, and will continue evolving for quite some time as it finds its place in the industry.

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