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Pet Food Packaging
Ten innovative petfood packaging products for 2011
The latest petfood packaging materials, machinery and equipment from iPhone apps to baggers, bio-resins and biodegradable paper.
Packaging innovation can be as simple as a new opening or closure for packaging and as advanced as a new way to process sensitive packaging materials, paper and resin.
Pet Food Product Database
Key Technology Horizon
Key Technology
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Pet Food Ingredients
AAFCO votes on specialty petfood labels
The 102nd Annual Convention of the Association of American Feed Control Officials was held July 30 to August 1, 2011, in Austin, Texas, USA. There were some, but not very many, items directly affecting petfood. Since the AAFCO recently changed its procedures so the membership now votes at both the annual and midyear meetings, the number of items up for consideration in the general session seemed fewer this year than at annual meetings past.
Pet Food News
Petfood packaging conference scheduled for December
The Packaging Group Inc. announced that the conferences and courses of its Pet Food Pac-2011 will take place on December 6 and 7, in Monroe Township, New Jersey, USA. Two courses will be held on December 6, covering shelf life extension and humanization of petfood packaging.
Pet Food Product Database
Perten Instruments flour milling calibration package for DA 7200 analysis system
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Pet Food Product Database
Multivac Inc. B610 packaging machine
Multivac Inc
Pet Food Product Database
Plastic Technologies Inc. recycling stream impact testing services
Market Trends and Reports
Clean labels provide transparency for pet owners
As consumers have made it clear that they trust what they understand and perceive to be fresh, "real" ingredients, and as they demand the right to know what is in the foods they eat, should it come as a surprise that those same consumers are now insisting on the same right for the foods they feed their pets? The focus on a clear brand message and using language consumers clearly understand is growing and not going away, according to Lynn Dornblaser of Mintel.
A clean label utilizes simple packaging that conveys clearly the benefits of the product and lists easy to understand ingredients—this often means ones that consumers eat themselves.
Pet Food Ingredients
Bringing a new petfood concept to market
Where do new product ideas come from in the petfood industry? Do they only come from marketing or sales? In my experience, some of the fastest growing new products or brands have come from single entrepreneurs as well as large multifunctional groups.
Once a product idea is conceived and planned, often it becomes a balancing act of activities and reactions.
Pet Food Product Database
Thayer Scale Force Measurement Suspension System technology
Thayer Scale-Hyer Industries Inc
Pet Food Product Database
Petrotest Instruments PA5 digital manometer
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Pet Food Ingredients
New AAFCO website to help small petfood manufacturers
In the September 2010 issue of Petfood Industry, I briefly reported on the Association of American Feed Control Officials’ intent to launch a website designed particularly to help small manufacturers understand and comply with labeling and other state and federal regulatory requirements. The preview of the site at last year’s annual meeting met with tremendous applause from the audience.
‘The Business of Pet Food’ explains the need for product registration and/or company licensure at the state level and provides a table of basic state requirements as well as contact information and links for each state feed control office.
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