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AAFCO Mid-Year Meeting: Pet food ingredient updates

AAFCO's Ingredient Definitions Committee covered a lot of ground during the virtual meeting held in January, including discussions on black soldier fly larvae, hemp and "human grade."

AAFCO’s Ingredient Definitions Committee had plenty to discuss at the Mid-Year Meeting. | (Eva Blanco I iStock.com)

Pet Food Ingredients

Why plant-based pet foods continue to sprout up

Stemming from growing interest in human foods, a focus on plants in pet foods continues to increase, even as barriers remain and more research is needed.

Plants are becoming a more significant contributor to pet food formulations. | (PPAMPicture | iStock.com)

Pet Food Market

Plant-based pet food is a trend picking up speed

Pet owners continue to want their pets’ food to reflect their own as they increasingly go plant-based, increasing demand for pets as well.

Plant-based pet food is a rising trend, with health and sustainability among the top driving forces. | (Courtesy Petaluma)

Pet Food Market

Cargill: Meat aisle natural fit for The Chompery treats

The Chompery products are produced in the United States from natural ingredients, are easy to digest, and promote healthier teeth and gums, a The Chompery Fact Sheet stated.

Bone broth has a long history of potential health claims, but the actual research of those claims in pet food is lacking. (Magdalena Kucova | Shutterstock.com)

Pet Food Ingredients

Russia restricts pet food with GMOs, mulls ingredients

Besides unofficially restricting U.S. pet foods purported to include GMOs, Russia is also considering limits on imports of meat meal and bone meal.

The Russian pet food market may be disrupted by recent government decisions regarding imports of U.S. pet food, plus meat meal and bone meal. l Vladislav Vorotnikov

Pet Food Product Database

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