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Learning from a sad and messy crisis
Fast-breaking news, some inaccurate, from thousands of sources has a huge downside: Brand equity that has taken years to establish can be wiped out in a few days. There are a number of quality assurance systems you can put in place to prevent such devastation. Many petfood companies will likely work at improving vendor certification programs. Still, what if it happens? How do you respond? When something goes terribly wrong, you best be prepared.
The media has kept a close track on what has been happening in our industry.
Brand Insights
Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food
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Discover how plasma protein supports pet health, boosts palatability, and improves pet food functionality and processing performance in modern formulations.
Plasma: A Multi-Faceted Ingredient Supporting Health, Formula Functionality, and Nutrition in Pet Food
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Humanization: both sides now
The humanization of pets has been enormously positive for the petfood industry. However, there's another side to humanization, as we're seeing now in the wake of numerous petfood recalls.
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Great brands, great future
Del Monte Foods is one of the largest and most well-known producers, distributors and marketers of premium branded and private label food and pet products for the US retail market. Del Monte is, as a company, focused on two very powerful business trends. The first is "Health and Wellness" on the human side. The second is "Pet as Family Member."
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Automating petfood safety
How to respond rapidly to minimize the effects of product contamination
A well-designed plant network architecture integrates several systems into one automated system. Source: Leveraging production information, Ray Bachelor, Petfood Forum 2006 Proceedings.
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Top treat trends
Hot keeps getting hotter. With the global treat market worth an estimated US$4 billion, Petfood Industry chose treats as the subject of its most recent Petfood Focus event, held April 18-19, 2007, following Petfood Forum 2007 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Over 275 attendees were present. Three of the topics from this event are summarized here.
Figure 1. The annual growth rate of the treat segment in North America, Europe and Japan from 2002-2006 shows that Japan has a strong treat market, while Europe is slowly stabilizing and North America is doing well, but not experiencing explosive growth. Source: Euromonitor, 2006.
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Something To Chew On: Reforming the global supply chain
The global food supply chain, for both pets and humans, needs serious reform
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Recall update: the scene from China
In early May the Chinese government arrested two people involved in the melamine and cyanuric acid contamination of petfood ingredients exported to the US and stepped up enforcement activities. In addition, the Chinese government worked with experts from the US FDA to help resolve the problem.
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Recall crisis: what we have learned
The repercussions from this petfood contamination crisis will be seen for years to come
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Market Watch: Your customers are loyal to value
This month I'll share an online survey of your customers
Fifty-five percent of US pet owners think their brands are priced at value.
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Controlling ingredient interactions
How raw materials impact extrusion processes and costs
The particle size and pre-grinding of raw materials is especially critical if the final product is a delicate shape. The samples on the left were ground through a 0.8 mm hammermill screen, the ones on the right through a 1.5 mm hammermill screen.
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Wet petfood processing
CIL and CIG/CIJ formats from start to finish
Figure 1. Wet petfood manufacture overview.
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Editorial Notes: Fear itself
Stress is much more likely to hurt you than the avian flu
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