Pet Food News: Page 157

Plant-based pet food proteins’ processing considerations

Plant-based pet food ingredients continue to gain interest from consumers and producers, but making pet foods with them is not necessarily straightforward.

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5 Petfood Industry blogs, columns in July 2022

In July 2022, Petfood Industry’s staff and contributors wrote 5 blogs and columns. These articles covered pet food e-commerce, sustainability, inflation and more.

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Nestle India buys Purina Petcare dog, cat food business

The integration of Purina Petcare India with Nestle India will cost INR1,253 million (US$15.95 million).

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Purina 2022 pet food sales up so far in US, China, globally

Worldwide, Purina PetCare continued delivering strong sales for parent company Nestle in the first half of 2022.

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French pet food company invests to start own production

Pepette, offering fresh, personalized dog and cat diets, has been outsourcing manufacture of its products, but plans to build its own plant within two years.

Pepette is readying to launch its own pet food factory in the Centre Val de Loire region of France.

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Italian pet food market up 8.5% in 2021 with new owners

The Italian pet food market grew rapidly following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020.

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Pet food growth may outstrip animal protein supply

Animal protein production bottlenecks were only one of the supply chain issues facing the pet food industry now and in the near future, according to researchers in their examination of the interplay among human and pet food ingredient demands.

With byproducts from a cow being used for pet food, should it have the same carbon footprint as a steak for humans? l Andrea Gantz

Raw meat dog food germs linked to human infection

Along with evidence of spreading germs to people, dogs fed raw pet food may have harbored antibacterial-resistant strains of E. coli.

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Toxic pet food contaminants: Arsenic, BPA, PCB, aflatoxin…

In the production of pet foods, no different than human foods, there are a number of compounds that make their way into the food that aren’t a part of the formula/recipe or stated on the ingredient listing.

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Simmons Pet Food expands wet pet food plants, distribution

In Edgerton and Emporia, Kansas, USA. Simmons will invest approximately US$115 million in the pet food manufacturing plants and other facilities.

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Raw, lightly cooked extruded dog foods alter gut bacteria

Those results give clues about how those types of diets influence digestion and the community of organisms, called microbiota, in dogs’ intestines.

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Insect-based pet and people foods marketed together

The human and pet food worlds seem to be converging. The growing popularity of insect-based pet foods in Mexico exemplifies this.

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