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Doctors Foster and Smith products to hit shelves in Target stores

Doctors Foster and Smith recently announced the debut of its dog food and dog furniture at Target beginning July 15, 2007. This marks the first time the company will be selling its products on retail shelves.

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Cornell opens Comprehensive Animal Care Facility

Cornell University recently celebrated the opening of the East Campus Research Facility (ECRF), the 79,000-square-foot consolidated animal research building five years in the making. The ECRF is expected to be fully operational by this fall.

Cancer cells inhibited by pomegranate juice

In this study, supplementation with an antioxidant-rich whole food (pomegranate) was evaluated for anti-cancer properties. This first-phase study shows that pomegranate juice may be a useful nutrient-based, non-chemotherapeutic alternative for the inhibition of ER- breast cancer cell proliferation.

Brookshire named product manager for petfood verification system

Integrated Management Information Inc. (IMI) in Castle Rock, Colorado, USA, has named Melissa Brookshire, DVM, as product manager of its Pet Supply Verification program.

Specialists confer about the petfood recall

Although no new treatment protocols were recommended, several important points were underscored for communication to veterinary practitioners

Red carrot has lower lycopene bioavailability

Lycopene bioavailability was compared in Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) fed freeze-dried red carrot and tomato paste (Study 1, n = 47) and whole food extracts dissolved in cottonseed oil (Study 2, n = 39). It was discovered that red carrot maintains vitamin A status, but constituent ß-carotene may interfere with lycopene bioavailability. These results confirm prior studies in humans on the relative bioavailability of lycopene from red carrots and tomato paste and expand them by suggesting the mechanism and determining vitamin A value.

Petfood safety web seminar

On July 12, 2:00 p.m. Eastern (USA), join petfood safety and traceability experts Julie Lenzer Kirk of Interstates Companies and Matt Frederking of Poet Nutrition for a discussion of how to avoid high-profile contamination incidents and what to do if one happens anyway. In this webinar, you will hear expert advice on ways to build trust with your suppliers and improve your QA efforts; the why and how of automated traceability systems; and practical ideas on what to do when a contamination crisis occurs. For more information and to register, go to http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/watt001/22719/.

Nutrient digestibility in African grey parrots fed pelleted diets

A feeding trial was performed to study the influence of particle size in extruded parrot pellets on apparent digestibility and excreta consistency and pH. Neither apparent digestibility coefficients nor excreta pH values were significantly different in parrots fed the two diets. However, excreta consistency was significantly (P

Ol' Roy dog food recalled due to Salmonella concerns

The recall is unrelated to recent petfood recalls connected to tainted Chinese proteins used in some petfood productio

Nutrition program established in Southern California

The program complements the Nutritional Support Service at the veterinary teaching hospital

FDA disputes petfood findings

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled out acetaminophen as a petfood contaminant after they found no trace of the substance in five samples of one type of cat and two types of dog food

Passing of a petfood pioneer

Dr. James E. Corbin, an industry leader and pioneer, died March 1.

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