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Switch pet food ingredients carefully, despite prices

As the saying goes, there are no free lunches. However, that doesn’t mean a pet food formulator can’t find a means to adjust a recipe according to what is available and affordable.

Pet Food Product Database

Global Hygienic Blow-Through Airlock

Schenck Process Global Hygienic Blow Through Airlock

Rendered pet food ingredients digestibility helps environment

Increasing digestibility improves the amount of nutrition extracted in the rendering process. This makes more pet food ingredients per the quantity of energy used and pollution produced.

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Pet Food Market

Argentine pet food exports may grow using quality control

Quality control procedures boost efficiency, ensure consistent pet food products and reduce the potential for recalls, but quality control can go beyond that to become a marketing tool for dog, cat and other pet food producers.

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Pet Food Product Database

Presto ECOA Elevating Worker Platform Lifts

Presto Ecoa Elevating Worker Platform

Pet Food Market

Pet food producers’ costs for wet pet food rising most

The costs of many components for making pet food continue to rise, especially for canned dog and cat food, and are increasingly driving up retail prices.

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