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Premier Pet Nutrition opens enhanced-safety premix facility

Premier Pet Nutrition has opened its new premix facility designed to provide absolute safety and assurance for all premixes manufactured by the company. Enhanced pharmaceutical features expand on its tumble mix system.

A video of Premier Pet Nutrition's new facility can be viewed by scanning the QR code with your smartphone.

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The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

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What keeps pet food professionals up at 2 AM? It’s not just Salmonella, ingredient shortages, or missed deliveries. It’s the rising pressure from a new generation of pet owners who expect perfection and demand it fast.

The 2 AM Formula Crisis: Why Pet Food Professionals Are Burning Out

Research funded by Mars, Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition looks at benefits of animal interactions

New research studies, supported by funding from Mars and Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition, focus on how interactions with animals positively affect people’s physical, mental and social well-being. The studies focus on three areas: the impact of equine-based programs on early teens’ social skills, how structured interactions with dogs impacts people with dementia, and the effect of pet ownership on social relationships and community connectedness.

Petfood distribution grant from Banfield Charitable Trust helps low-income seniors

Banfield Charitable Trust recently provided low-income seniors at Old Colony Elder Services in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA, with a petfood distribution grant. “Low-income seniors are among America’s millions struggling with hunger and food insecurity.

Nestle to build US$98.4 million petfood production facility in Poland

Nestle says the company has selected a key market in Poland to lead the expansion of its petfood production operations in central and eastern Europe, where rising incomes have majorly impacted lifestyles. The petfood maker says it is constructing a CHF93 million (US$98.4 million) new plant and distribution center in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, Poland.

New retail price-monitoring, analytics service offered

RetailData and Brand View have formed a new partnership called Retail View, a price-monitoring and analytics service. RetailData, which provides CPGs with a solution to assess accurate pricing data across the country, and Brand View, a provider of real-time price and promotions tracking, have teamed up to provide this fully customizable service with actual price tracking and analysis.

Owners of petfood producer Vitakraft sell company

Vitakraft-Weke owners, the Wührmann family, has sold the producer of petfoods to two new owners. According to a report, the two new shareholders are an unnamed private investor and petfood manufacturer Deuerer.

Livestock Feed and Pet Food Safety Research Round Table to be held August 13

Kansas State University’s Department of Grain Science and Industry will host a Livestock Feed and Pet Food Safety Research Round Table at the International Grains Program on August 13. The event is geared toward professionals interested in learning about the latest updates in feed safety research and regulations in the livestock feed and petfood industries.

Wenger Manufacturing launches new Facebook petfood processing blog

Wenger Manufacturing recently launched a new blog on Facebook, wengerpedia.com. The extrusion processing technology company hopes the platform will educate, inspire and facilitate conversations to advance food and petfood processing around the world.

WATT launches Petfood Industry Community group on LinkedIn

The Petfood Industry Community is the LinkedIn group for all petfood professionals

FDA to issue new 'Salmonella in Food for Animals' Compliance Policy Guide

On July 16 in its Federal Register, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a new Compliance Policy Guide for Salmonella in Food for Animals. The Compliance Policy Guide "provides guidance to FDA staff on Salmonella-contaminated food for animals."

Partner in Pet Food to acquire petfood division of Agro-Trust

Partner in Pet Food, a pan-European petfood producer, has agreed to acquire the petfood division of Agro-trust, a family owned Hungarian agricultural and petfood company. Agro-Trust produces a range of alucup products, petfood sausages, and specialty dried and smoked products.

Global Pet Expo 2014 dates announced

The American Pet Products Association and Pet Industry Distributors Association have announced dates of the 2014 Global Pet Expo. This pet industry show will be held March 12-14, 2014, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, USA.

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