Pet Food Ingredients

Pet Food Palatability

Sustainable protein palatability depends on pet food processing, formulation

Alternative proteins need not rely solely on environmental credentials. With careful formulation and processing, they can also deliver the sensory qualities that keep pets coming back to the bowl.

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Patents offer clues to high-fresh-meat dry pet food production

The patent landscape suggests that manufacturers seek production methods capable of meeting demands for higher fresh-meat inclusion while preserving the convenience and shelf life of dry kibble.

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Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

Q&A Science Dive: Advanced glycation end-product formation in wet, dry and fresh cat food

What drives advanced glycation end-product (AGE) formation and what should formulators take away from research on AGEs?

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Pet Food Safety

Wet cat food held highest levels of certain potentially unhealthy chemicals

Concentrations of advanced glycation end-products in mildly cooked (fresh) and extruded dry diets often did not differ significantly in an experiment.

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Pet Food Ingredients

FDA GRAS rule timeline pushed to December 2026

A newly released federal regulatory agenda shows the Food and Drug Administration's proposed rule on mandatory GRAS notifications has been delayed again and narrowed in scope, according to attorneys at Venable LLP.

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BeneMeat welcomes Czech meat processors to facility

Company executives and Czech Meat Processors Association leaders toured BeneMeat's pilot facility and discussed regulatory and labeling issues facing cultivated meat.

BeneMeat welcomed representatives of the Czech Meat Processors Association (ČSZM) to showcase its pilot production facility.

Pet Food Processing

Freeze-dried pet food gains ground in demand, ingredients and manufacturing

Consumer behavior, ingredient innovation and production engineering are converging to move freeze-dried pet food from specialty format to scalable category.

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Insect-based Cat and Dog Food

Fairville, NRGene Canada launch FairGene BSF egg facility in Alberta

The new Bassano facility has begun producing black soldier fly (BSF) eggs for producers worldwide, pairing Fairville’s agricultural production experience with NRGene Canada’s MaxBSF genetics platform.

Pet Food Ingredients

BioCraft releases first public cell-cultured ingredient safety dossier

The company published years of tumorigenicity, genotoxicity and viral safety data for its cell-cultured pet food ingredient and proposed a minimum disclosure standard for the category.

According to BioCraft, animal cell-cultured ingredients sold in the European Union and the UK are not subject to independent, ingredient-level safety review at this time.

Ingredient Issues

Vital decisions — the vitamin supply chain

Today’s system of vitamin ingredient distribution is insufficient for global supply needs.

The current supply chain for vitamins requires diversification to ensure a single event can’t catastrophically disrupt deliveries.

Supplements Supplier Brief

ADM research explores gut-metabolic axis for pet postbiotics

In recent research, a new postbiotic strain from ADM shows promise for supporting healthy glucose metabolism in dogs during weight management.

Interest in metabolic health supplements for pets is already emerging among brands and consumers.

Algiecel names CFO, board chairperson amid scale-up

The Danish microalgae ingredients company appointed Mette Ingeman Pedersen as chief financial officer and Tove Feld as board chairperson as it moves toward commercial-scale production.

New appointments bring finance, industrial scale-up, governance and renewable energy expertise as Algiecel advances toward commercial production. From left: Mette Ingeman Pedersen, Susanne Palsten Burchardt and Tove Feld.

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