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Flexible packaging companies Prolamina, Ampac merge

Wellspring Capital Management L.L.C., a New York-based private equity firm, has created a leading flexible packaging company through the merger of portfolio companies Prolamina Corp. and newly acquired Ampac Holdings L.L.C. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Pet Food Market

Survey examines US pet food spending

A recent Nielsen survey conducted by Harris Poll looked at how much money Americans spent on pet food in the past year. The English-language survey polled 2,205 US adults, 1,323 of whom have at least one pet.

Company sheds light on stored product insects

McCloud Services, a leading pest management company servicing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio and Wisconsin, is generating awareness on stored product insects (SPIs) and the threat they cause to grain-based foods, especially pet foods. Common SPIs include indianmeal moth, warehouse beetles and cigarette beetles and they live in the food they are eating. If populations grow, they can be difficult to control.

Pet Food Market

Friskies teams up with cat stars for a cause

Famous felines Grumpy Cat and Nala Cat will join cat lover and WWE star Natalya Neidhart in unveiling the Friskies Create & Taste Kitchen, where cats and Friskies foods will go head-to-head in a truly unique way.

Pet Food Market

Apply for Alltech’s Career Development Program

The world could be at the fingertips of students from around the world through the fourth annual Alltech Corporate Career Development Program. Now accepting online applications from Aug. 17 to Sept. 30, Alltech invites recent graduates of bachelor’s or master’s degree programs to apply for the program, which will begin in February for the 2016 group.

AFIA adds new certifying body for FSC36 Safe Feed/Safe Food

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) recently added SGS North America as a certifying body for FSC36 Safe Feed/Safe Food. SGS is the fourth certifying body recognized by AFIA to complete FSC36 Safe Feed/Safe Food audits.

Study: Pet food particle size can affect digestibility

The Association for Pet Obesity says 53% of dogs and 58% of cats in the US are overweight, and 90% of pet owners don’t know their pets are overweight.

Pet Food Market

Nestle sales down from last year, meet expectations

Nestle announced lower revenue growth in the first half of 2015, compared with last year.

freeimages.com/Masbro | Nestle announced lower revenue growth in the first half of 2015, compared with last year.

Market Trends and Reports

Register for Innovation Workshop, Pet Food Experience

Registration for this fall’s collaborative Petfood Innovation Workshop and Kansas State’s Pet Food Experience has been opened.

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Eurofins, AFIA partner to provide industry training

Eurofins Food Safety Systems and the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) have signed an agreement to provide co-branded public training for the animal feed and pet food industries.

Northwest Farm Food Cooperative recalls cat food

Northwest Farm Food Cooperative of Burlington, Washington, USA, is voluntarily recalling frozen raw cat food with the code Jul12015B due to their potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

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Food protection group focuses attention on pet food safety

The International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) recently met for its annual meeting, and focused some of its attention on pet food safety.

FREEIMAGES.COM | Marcos Santos

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