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Safety & Quality

Thermo Fisher Scientific

300 Industry Drive

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15275

Pet Food Product Database

WeighPack Systems Inc. PrimoLinear C-series linear scale

WeighPack Systems Inc

Pet Food Product Database

ITW Muller Octopus S Series automatic rotary ring stretch wrapper

Pet Food Market

Petfood packaging report highlights market features, safety concerns

A new Pet Food Market Assessment 2013 from the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) neatly encapsulates the opportunities and challenges for petfood manufacturers based in or selling to the US. While much of the information in the report is not new to our industry, it gives a fresh perspective on US petfood's short-term future.

Market Trends and Reports

The manufacturing line: Sustainable packaging systems

PMMI’s “Pet Food Market Assessment 2013” describes a competitive market, where brands are striving to set themselves apart. By and large, however, petfood is generally in traditional formats—60% in multi-walled bags, for example.

Manufacturers should be exploring ways to standardize sustainability in their processing lines to save on cost, time and their carbon footprint.

Genetically modified food labeling to be voted on in Washington, USA

Mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods will be voted on in November by state legislators in Washington, USA, where a new initiative was recently introduced. If passed, Initiative 522, or "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act," would require that agricultural commodities and processed foods containing genetically engineered ingredients must be labeled accordingly.

Monge expands its petfood future by honoring its past

The year 2013 will be an eventful one for the Italian family-owned company Monge as the company celebrates the milestone of its 50th anniversary. The celebration will be doubly significant: while celebrating the past, and the company's 1963 founding, Monge is also looking to the future, with a ribbon cutting for the opening of its new advanced dry food facility which, in the words of CEO Domenico Monge, "will put us well on the way to becoming a true one-stop shop for the consumer and enable us to produce wet and dry food for virtually every market segment on the same production site."

The Monge family: Baldassarre (president) and Emma, and their daughters Alessandra (financial director), Franca (procurement director) and son Domenico (CEO).

FreeHand chooses rescue dog as face of new petfood packaging

FreeHand, a petfood company, recently awarded a Dallas, Texas, USA, rescue dog named Leslie as the winner of the "New Fuzzy Face of FreeHand" Facebook contest winner. As winner of the contest, which aimed to encourage rescue dog adoption, Leslie will also appear on the front of the petfood company's new 5-pound, super-premium dog food bags.

Pet Food Ingredients

Controlling Salmonella in dry petfood

With pending regulations from the Food Safety Modernization Act likely to affect the production of petfood, safety has become the top priority for every producer in our industry. Recent publications have linked petfood to transmission of pathogenic Salmonella spp. to humans and prompted a new description for petfoods as a "direct human contact feed."

Petfood industry comes together at Petfood Forum and Workshop

Learn from experts from both the petfood and human food industries during Petfood Forum 2013 and Petfood Workshop: World ofIngredients. Both conferences also offer an exclusive opportunity to network with longtime industry colleagues, key suppliers, business contacts and new acquaintances from throughout the global petfood industry, all in one place.

Pet Food Ingredients

Petfood Forum 2013 exhibitors

Following are the exhibitors for Petfood Forum 2013 registered to date. Bookmark this page for regular updates.

Market Trends and Reports

Blackwood Pet Food redesigns cat food packaging

Design agency Ideas that Kick recently redesigned packaging for Blackwood Pet Food’s full line of superpremium cat foods. The new cat food packaging design highlights key nutritional information for each cat food recipe in the front and slightly off-center on each bag, making it easier for pet owners to notice on first glance.

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