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Market Trends and Reports

‘Healthy grains’ dog foods appear in the wake of DCM

Dog food formulators have done that by bringing grains back, adding taurine and dropping legumes and potatoes from recipes

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Market Trends and Reports

Petfood Industry blogs October ’19: crisis management, DCM

In October 2019, Petfood Industry contributors published 8 blogs about antioxidants, crisis management, canine dilated cardiomyopathy and other topics.

One of the Ballesta Islands off the coast of Peru. (Tim Wall)

Pet Food Ingredients

DCM fear hurt Montana pulse farmers’ pet food business

One farmer questioned the validity and reasoning behind the FDA announcement concerning certain grain-free dog foods and canine dilated cardiomyopathy.

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Q&A: Recovering from pig ear dog chew Salmonella outbreak

FDA provided this question and answer to help pet food and treat retailers, distributors, importers and others to understand the current situation with pig ear dog chew treats.

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Pet food additives bill pending in Philippine senate

A bill currently up for reading in the Philippines Senate would require pet food makers to include all ingredients and additives used in pet food on the label.

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Pet Food Safety

FDA, CDC say pig ear pet treat Salmonella outbreak over

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) started their investigation of the outbreak in July.

Adulterated pet food ingredient conspirator pleads guilty

The manager of the pet food ingredient processing facility from which Blue Buffalo received products adulterated with poultry by-product meal pleaded guilty in Missouri federal court.

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Australian hunters to harvest 14k kangaroos for pet food

The Victoria state government started the Kangaroo Harvesting Program to reduce the population of native kangaroos.

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Pet Food Market

FDA’s DCM updates miss the mark with consumers, industry

FDA claims it must keep the public informed about its DCM investigation, yet its updates have only caused consumer fear and pet food industry anxiety.

Grain Free Pet Food Backlash

‘Severe risk’ from resistant bacteria in raw pet food

University of Zurich scientists analyzed 51 varieties of raw pet food. They detected Salmonella in 3.9% of the samples.

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Pet food brands named by FDA in DCM alert see sales loss

The 16 pet food brands prominently named in FDA’s June 2019 DCM alert are seeing declining sales, said Nielsen’s Natasha Davis at the Petfood R&D Showcase.

Nielsen data show grain-free pet food sales slowing since FDA first started sending alerts about DCM. l Debbie Phillips-Donaldson

Pet Food Safety

Avoid pet food media crises with preemptive press releases

Preemptive press releases ensure that a pet food company can get their message out to journalists as quickly as possible.

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