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Pet Food Market

DCM study: no link to grain-free pet food, no closure

FDA’s investigation into a possible link between grain-free pet food and DCM, and its handling of the situation, has yielded no answers, only frustration.

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Brand Insights

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

EDL, as Massman Company

EDL Double Tight Wrap shrink wrapping machines use two perpendicular bands of LDPE film to tightly unitize and totally enclose a product or collation.

Pet Food Manufacturer Thinks Outside the Box with EDL’s Double Tight Wrap Machine

Pet Food Ingredients

Allergy-fighting cat food safe in feeding trials

Cat allergies affect an estimated 12.1% of people older than 6, but a cat food coating derived from chicken eggs may help those folks embrace felines without sneezing fits.

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DCM connection to grain-free dog food not found in review

More than 150 published studies didn’t reveal to researchers any firm connection between cases of canine dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and grain-free dog food.

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Pet Food Market

3 pet food ingredient categories: outlook through 2020

Though the pet food supply chain experienced some disruptions with poultry, rendered proteins and grains, they seem to have been localized and short term.

Illustration by Andrea Gantz

Americans feel ‘guilty’ about kibble odor; French ‘joyful’

Among the pet owners of Brittany of France, Kansas in the Unites States and Réunion Island, off the east coast of Africa, scientists found differences in people’s psychological reactions to dog and cat food.

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Market Trends and Reports

West Paw Creamy Dog Treats

West Paw Creamy Dog Treat

Pet Food Market

New pet food product development perseveres in pandemic

Although the COVID-19 pandemic slowed many aspects of the global economy, while taking hundreds of thousands of lives, the pet food industry found ways to adapt.

‘Beautiful system’ supplies by-products to make pet food

Before recycling even entered the English language, some pet food and animal feed ingredient companies reduced the amount of waste produced by reusing byproducts of the human food system.

Pet food industry disconnected from public on byproducts

Byproduct usage serves as a huge sustainability story for the pet food industry, one executive said. People in the industry take for granted that others know the same.

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Pet Food Market

AAFCO to require qualification of the term ‘buffalo’

New requirements from AAFCO regarding the term "buffalo" will require label updates, and there is currently no grace period for enforcement.

In the U.S., North American buffalo are also called bison (left). In other countries, however, “buffalo” is more commonly used to refer to water buffalo (right). | (volkova natalia | Shutterstock.com and WoraponL | Shutterstock.com)

Pet Food Market

COVID-19, pet food e-commerce, cheese: May 2020 columns

However, AAFCO regulations, online pet food sales and even cheese also appeared on Petfood Industry.

Cheese can be found in several pet food and treat products, but the potential benefits of cheese as an ingredient have yet to be fully explored. | (Lysikova Irina | Shutterstock.com)

Dog and Cat Food Nutrition

5 strategies for improving safety, nutrition of pet food

A collection of pet food processing strategies that help ensure safety and nutritional value. Sponsored by APEC.

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