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Pet Food Market

No surprise: FDA misses important FSMA deadlines

January 4 -- a year after the Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into legislation -- was the date several of its key provisions were to take effect. According to FDAImports.com, the Food and Drug Administration has failed to finalize these provisions by the deadline.

Pet Food News

Global petfood market growth from product innovation, report says

The petfood industry has experienced much growth due to increased petfood market segmentation and pet product innovation, according to a new report on the global petfood industry from Global Industry Analysts Inc. The research report, "Pet Foods: A Global Outlook," includes a collection of statistics, market briefs and research findings to provide an analysis of global petfood market trends and petfood market issues.

Market Trends and Reports

Open innovation: ways to jump-start your new petfood product development

Open Innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new imperative for creating and profiting from technology. The concept is related to user innovation, cumulative innovation, mass innovation and distributed innovation. According to Edwin Grim of Ralco Nutrition, “Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

Market Trends and Reports

Safety focus: shipping and distribution of petfood products

Keywords like collaboration, cloud computing and responsiveness will dominate the petfood supply chain landscape — is your company prepared? How will you ensure that a worry-free product is always being delivered safely, efficiently and in a timely manner to consumers?

Market Trends and Reports

Preview: Petfood Forum and Petfood Workshop 2012

The global petfood industry continues to grow, thanks to continuing humanization of pets. Make sure you’re keeping up with the latest consumer trends and needs—plus all you need to know about pet nutrition and petfood packaging, safety and processing—by attending Petfood Forum 2012 and Petfood Workshop: New Product Development.

Market Trends and Reports

Pet chew maker Nylabone launches grain-free biscuits

Nylabone, pet chew maker, launched new grain-free biscuits that will be made available to consumers in select US states through Costco Warehouse. The grain-free biscuits are turkey-flavored and include ingredients such as peas, turkey meat, blueberries, cranberries and flaxseed, according to Nylabone.