Packaging: Page 91

Dog food maker replaces plastic containers with paper for Earth Day

Dynamite Specialty Products is replacing the plastic containers used for packaging its dog food with paper-craft bags in celebration of the upcoming Earth Day, on Friday, April 22. Beginning in late Spring, bags for smaller products will be made of recyclable paper, sewn at the top and have a moisture-grease barrier that is sprayed on as a liner.

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Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

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Learn how regulatory complexity is impacting the pet food industry and how brands will meet the challenge using the right digital tools

Simplify Pet Food Labeling: Strategies for Navigating Global Regulations

Cei to demonstrate petfood packaging solutions at April's Petfood Forum

Coating Excellence International will exhibit its packaging solutions to the petfood industry at booth 535 during Petfood Forum, taking place April 11-13. At the show, cei will showcase its portfolio of flexible packaging solutions for the petfood market, with representatives available to provide additional information and answer questions.

Pet Food Product Database

Fischbein LLC Empress Series 100-2 two needle plain sew head

Pet Food Product Database

Südpack Verpackungen GmbH & Co. KG

Jägerstr. 23

Ochsenhausen 88416

Bemis Clysar retort packaging

Pet Food Labeling

Veterinary groups offer pet nutritional assessment guidelines

Both the American Animal Hospital Association and World Small Animal Veterinary Association have recently published guidelines for the nutritional assessment of pets as part of routine physical examinations. The role of nutrition in animal health has long been a very important but often underutilized component of veterinary medicine.

Pet Food Labeling

Something to Chew On: Fighting pet obesity

The fourth annual National Pet Obesity Awareness Day Study from the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention (www.petobesityprevention.com) shows more than 50% of US dogs and cats are now overweight or obese. Specifically, the survey highlights these preliminary data.

Pet Food Ingredients

What’s in a name? New and proposed petfood ingredients

Despite the expectation that the Food and Drug Administration will phase out its participation in the Association of American Feed Control Officials feed ingredient definition process by 2012, there are still many ingredients in the definition pipeline. During its “mid-year” meeting in January, AAFCO took action on a number of new and proposed ingredients, at least a few of which have impact on petfoods.

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Pet Food Product Database

Behn + Bates packaging machine technology

Pet Food Product Database

Eagle Packaging Machinery LLC Boxxer AutoLock Case Erector

Parsons-Eagle Packaging Systems

Pet Food Product Database

Plastic Technologies Inc. PET Hydrolytic Degradation Nomograph

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