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Pet Food Ingredients

Feeding dried okara-tempeh to dogs

Okara is a white or yellowish pulp comprising the insoluble portion of soybeans. It is low in fat, high in fiber and contains protein, calcium, iron and riboflavin.

Brand Insights

Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

Datacor (formerly Format Solutions)

Discover how pet food manufacturers are reducing emissions and driving sustainability through ingredient innovation and eco-friendly nutrition.

Sustainability Starts with the Formula: How Smarter Formulation Is Shaping the Future of Pet Food Production

Market Trends and Reports

Adaptation of healthy cats to dietary fibers

Nine young adult male cats were used to determine the effects of microbial adaptation to select dietary fiber sources on changes in pH in vitro, total and hydrogen gas, short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) and branched-chain fatty acid (BCFA) production. Cats were adapted to diets containing 4% cellulose, fructooligosaccharides (FOS) or pectin for 30 days prior to fecal sampling.

NASC honors pet companies with awards for commitment to quality

National Animal Supplement Council hosted its inaugural awards dinner at its annual conference on May 12 in San Diego, California, USA. Fifteen companies and individuals were honored for going above and beyond in their commitment to quality, education and improving the standards of the animal health supplement industry.

Biomin survey finds mycotoxins present in raw materials and feed

Biomin conducted a survey on the presence of mycotoxins in raw materials and animal feed, which found that mycotoxins are, more often than not, present. Out of the more than 3,300 samples tested during the 12-month period from January to December 2010, 78% tested positive for mycotoxin presence.

Canadian petfood company launches dry dog food line with all fresh ingredients

CARNA4 Inc., a Canada-based petfood start-up, says it has created the first dry dog food to use real food ingredients that are all grown in the US and Canada, without vitamin and mineral pre-mixes or other additives. The company says its dog food is made with fresh, table-grade chicken, wild salmon, eggs, whole produce and sprouted seeds, all baked to preserve authentic flavors and nutrients.

FDA issues regulations for importing petfood ingredients

In May, the Food and Drug Administration announced two new regulations to help ensure the safety and security of foods and petfoods in the US. The rules are the first to be issued by FDA under the authorities granted by the Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law by President Obama in January. Both rules will take effect July 3, 2011.

Palm kernel meal in UK petfood contributing to deforestation

British pets and other animals consume 10% of all palm kernel meal—a byproduct of palm oil—produced in the world, which may be contributing to the destruction of the rainforests where the oil is found. The UK imported a total of 643,400 metric tons of palm oil and 663,300 metric tons of palm kernel meal in 2009, according to "Mapping and understanding the UK palm oil supply chain," a report completed for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Hamlet Protein investing in new US plant

Hamlet Protein, a Denmark-based manufacturer of ingredients for the petfood and animal feed markets, is expanding to the US with a new plant in Findlay, Ohio, in early 2012. First producing products for the pig and dairy markets from the area’s large soybean crops, the plant will also soon produce petfood ingredients, said Ole Hansen, business development director, during Victam International 2011 in Cologne, Germany.

US court rules on melamine-tainted petfood settlement claims payout

Four years after melamine-contaminated petfood sickened and killed thousands of pets in North America, a New Jersey, USA, court opinion was issued to clear the way for settlement claims payouts. The opinion by Judge Noel Hillman in the US District Court of New Jersey was the last piece of court action required to finalize the appeals of a US$24-million petfood settlement approved by Hillman in October 2008.

Pet Food Ingredients

Opportunities for nutritional studies of companion animal cancer

Potential research areas for nutrition’s role in controlling and preventing canine/feline cancer

Pet Food Ingredients

Companion animal cancer and nutrition: is there a link?

Cancer can be considered a multi-organ, multi-factor, long-latency degenerative and chronic disease that results, in part, from a complex interplay of genetics, diet, lifestyle, inactivity, stress and environmental toxicants. Because carcinogenesis may span up to 10 years or more for certain canine and feline cancers, veterinary researchers have emerging opportunities to seek out dietary chemoprevention strategies to suppress the disease in its early, premalignant stages before clinical, invasive disease develops.

A number of natural compounds from plants have been studied using laboratory models of cancer control and prevention. Also known as phytochemicals, these compounds can be found in spices, fruits, vegetables and some herbs, legumes and whole grains.

Pet Food Ingredients

MOS in growing rabbits

To evaluate the effect of mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) on in vivo performance, nutrient digestibility, fermentation characteristics and caecal microbial populations of rabbits, 144 35-day-old hybrid Hyla were equally divided into three groups: one fed the same diet without additives (control group), one with antibiotics (colistin sulphate, 144 mg/kg; tylosin, 100 mg/kg; oxytetracyclin, 1000 mg/kg) and one with MOS (1 g/kg of diet). Mortality rate, live weight, feed intake and feed conversion ratio were recorded up to 62 days of age.

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