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Mars and IBM Research create food safety initiative

Mars and IBM Research have teamed up to launch the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain.

Brand Insights

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

EDL, as Massman Company

EDL Double Tight Wrap shrink wrapping machines use two perpendicular bands of LDPE film to tightly unitize and totally enclose a product or collation.

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

Pet Food Market

Ownership of small dogs on the rise

With sales reaching US$73 billion in 2014, the US pet products and services market is continuing its upward trajectory on the strength of several important industry trends.

Mettler Toledo offers free white paper on petfood safety

Precision implement supplier Mettler Toledo has released HACCP in the Pet Food Industry, a white paper analyzing worldwide market and legislative changes involving petfood safety.

Pet Food Market

Hill’s Pet Nutrition helps feed shelter animals

US-based Hill's Pet Nutrition has two charitable programs that partner with animal shelters to provide quality petfood to animals in need.

Petfood market shows steady expansion

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) hosted its eighth annual Petfood Conference January 27, 2015, as part of the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Richard Ten Eyck, AAFCO president, provides an industry update at AFIA conference.

AFIA food safety seminar clarifies FSMA regulations

The American Feed Industry Association hosted a full-day seminar on the US Food Safety Modernization Act at the International Production & Processing Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 28.

Henry Turlington, AFIA director of quality and manufacturing regulatory affairs, talks compliance at the Food Safety Modernization Actâ€”Building a Foundation for Compliance seminar.

Naturally Splendid moves forward with HempOmega petfood development

Naturally Splendid Enterprises has signed a research and product development service agreement with the Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development's Food Science and Technology Centre in Brooks, Alberta, Canada.

Silliker offers promotion on petfood process validation studies

Silliker is offering a 10% off promotion on Pet Food Process Validation Studies contracted before June 1, 2015, with the company's Food Science Center team.

petMD: Nutritional value is pet owners' top petfood concern

petMD conducted a survey to determine what factors people consider most when choosing a petfood, and the survey revealed that a majority of pet owners are highly concerned about the nutritional valueof their pet's food.

Pet Food Market

2015 Guangzhou Pet & Aqua Expo to be held

The Guangzhou Pet & Aqua Expo will be held June 26–28, 2015, in the China Import and Export fair complex Pazhou in Guangzhou.

Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced as founding sponsor of VetFolio

Hill’s Pet Nutrition has become the exclusive animal nutrition founding sponsor of VetFolio, an online continuing education platform for veterinary professionals offered by the American Animal Hospital Association and the North American Veterinary Community.

Pet Food Market

Cloud Star, Tiki brands merge to form Whitebridge Pet Brands

Cloud Star is merging with the Tiki pet brands of Petropics Gourmet Whole Foods to form Whitebridge Pet Brands.

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