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Purina Mills launches new small animal food, treat line
Purina Mills LLC is launching a new line of small animal food, Purina Little Wonders Food and Purina Small Animals Treats, in select Walmart stores. These specially formulated diets for gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits provide small animals with wholesome ingredients, like seeds, nuts, vegetables and fruits.
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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
Market Trends and Reports
Dietary changes and urinary oxalate excretion in cats
The progressive increase in calcium oxalate uroliths reported in cats diagnosed with urolithiasis may partly be due to changes in nutrition. Since cats have a predominant mitochondrial alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase 1 (AGT1) location, high carbohydrate intake may induce endogenous oxalate synthesis.
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Methyl nutrients inhibit growth of feline lymphoma
Feline lymphoma is one of the most frequently diagnosed tumors in cats. Lipotropes are dietary methyl donors that may modulate DNA methylation status and the expression of genes involved in growth and apoptosis of feline lymphoma cells.
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Interquell Happy Cat La Cuisine
Market Trends and Reports
Can we count on continued growth for petfood?
US pet retailers—mainly independent shops and groomers that sell pet supplies—reported a 3% increase in sales volume over 2010, for an average of US$323,000 in 2011, according to Pet Product News International’s 2012 State of the Industry Survey. The findings echo data from GfK Retail & Technology, which showed sales of petfood alone rose 7% last year in US pet shops, farm and feed stores and veterinary clinics.
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Purina Cat Chow brand launches cat story contest for cash prizes
Purina Cat Chow is hosting the "Purina Cat Chow Real Stories Project Contest," a nationwide search to find, showcase and celebrate cat stories that highlight the special relationship between cat people and their cats with a cash prize reward for the grand-prize winners.From now until July 31, pet owners can submit their cat relationship stories at www.yourcatstory.com, and five grand-prize winners will each receive a US$5,000 cash prize, a one year supply of Purina Cat Chow brand cat food for one cat, and have their cat relationship story told through a Purina Cat Chow brand online video, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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Wellness natural petfood adds 49 new cat, dog food recipes
Wellness natural petfood brand is adding 49 new product SKUs to its petfood line, with many new grain-free petfood or limited ingredient diets. Among the new products are 9 new Wellness CORE grain-free recipes for dogs and 12 new Wellness CORE grain-free recipes for cats, 16 newly reformulated Wellness Simple: Limited Ingredient Diet for Dogs recipes, and 12 extensions to the line of grain-free Wellness Cubed, Sliced and Minced Canned Cat Cuts recipes.
Pet Food News
Petfood Forum China 2012 online registration now open
Online registration is now open for China's first petfood conference, Petfood Forum China 2012, which will be held October 12 in Shanghai, co-located with Pet Fair Asia. Taking place at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, Petfood Forum China offers pet industry professionals with the latest on pet nutrition, petfood ingredients, processing and packaging technologies, and new product development processes from leading petfood consultants, manufacturers, suppliers and academicians.
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Blue Dog Bakery Perfect Trainers treats
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Eva Longoria to be celebrity face of Dine cat food brand
Eva Longoria has reportedly agreed to become the international celebrity face of the Dine cat food brand. Although Longoria, star of the TV show "Desperate Housewives," does not own a pet cat, she says she is a cat lover and owned them as a child.
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Diamond Pet Foods recall expanded to include cat food formulas
Diamond Pet Foods has once again expanded its petfood recall, this time to include a brand of cat food produced at the company's Gaston, South Carolina, USA, petfood manufacturing facility, due to the possibility of Salmonella contamination. The new recall involves two dry cat food formulas: Kirkland Signature Super Premium Maintenance Cat Chicken & Rice Formula and Kirkland Signature Super Premium Healthy Weight Cat Formula.
Pet Food News
Pet Fair Asia registration now open
Registration for Pet Fair Asia, which will be held in China in October, is now open, allowing industry professionals to register to attend the pet trade show event, which will also be co-located for the first time with Petfood Forum China. With 2.68 million pet dogs and 1.07 million pet cats, China's pet market is expected to increase 7.7 percent each year to US$476 million in 2015, according to Euromonitor International.
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