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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.

FleetwoodGoldcoWyard Tight Pitch Live Transfer Conveyor

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

Honest Kitchen re-launching trial-size packaging

The Honest Kitchen has re-designed the packaging for its trial size boxes of food to replicate the full-size, eco-friendly boxes for which the company is known. “The size and dimensions of our new trial sizes have been designed with the canned-food customer in mind,” said company founder Lucy Postins.

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Mocon Inc. announces 2011 free webinar schedule

Mocon Inc. announced the 2011 schedule for its free webinar series, which will cover topics such as petfood safety, product shelf-life and packaging. Each webinar will be taught by an expert with significant experience in the specific webinar subject.

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