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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.

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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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Antibiotic-resistant germs grown from pet food in Europe

Microbiologists grew antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus bacteria found in pet foods bought in Europe. Although pet food hasn’t been documented passing these germs to people, a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes could be created in the gut of dogs.

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Purina plans pet food facility expansion in Wisconsin, USA

Purina projects that the expansion will need at least 75 new full-time employees with average starting wages of US$25 per hour or more.

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Criteria for choosing extruded dog, cat food ingredients

Certain criteria influence why pet food formulators choose specific ingredients for new recipes to be processed in extruders.

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Private equity group to buy Voff Premium Pet Food

In February, Voff acquired Aristo Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of natural chews and treats with sales spanning across Scandanavia.

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