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3 reasons dog owners abandon kibble for raw meat diets

In a survey of dog owners who make raw, meat-based dog foods at home, researchers identified three main reasons people switch from store-bought kibble.

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Pet Food Market

Pet food feeding trials address breed, novel ingredients

Dog and cat food feeding trials must meet challenges posed by diets formulated to satisfy both consumers’ demands and nutritionists’ guidance.

Pet Food Market

AAFCO introduces the Online Database of Ingredients

Analyzing the benefits and challenges to pet food companies of AAFOC's new Online Ingredient Database.

AAFCO’s new Online Database of Ingredients has launched, providing both benefits and challenges to pet food companies looking to use it. (Alexander Raths | shutterstock.com)

Clostridium, Salmonella found in European raw pet food

Researchers encountered potentially disease-causing bacteria during laboratory analyses of raw dog foods available on the European market.

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Pet Food Safety

Pet food process improvements to minimize product loss

Techniques and technology that improve the pet food manufacturing process and minimize product, profit loss. Sponsored by Schenck Process Group.

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Pet Food Press Releases

Mars Petcare Arkansas facility receives 4 million work hours safety award

Mars Petcare's Fort Smith facility was honored on Feb. 27 with a Four Million Work Hours Safety Award from the Arkansas Department of Labor for accumulating four million work hours over seven years without a lost day away from work due to a work-related injury or illness.

Spore-forming bacteria risk higher in fresh meat pet food

Many livestock live close to the soil, and that soil harbors bacteria, such as Clostridium, which form spores that potentially hitch rides on fresh animal products.

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Pet Food Market

DCM cases: unknowns prove need for more pet food research

Knowledge gaps in the role, if any, played by grain-free pet food ingredients in recent atypical cases of DCM need addressing to understand the situation.

Beans could find a place in the next generation of pet food — if consumers are interested. | Darren Fisher, Dreamstime

Updates: 4 natural pet food lawsuits from 2017 to 2019

While some of these legal issues have been resolved, others continue in courts.

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Pet Food Press Releases

Update on FDA canine dilated cardiomyopathy investigation

The update covers reports of DCM received by FDA through November 30, 2018.

5 lawsuits allege dogs dead, sick from Hill’s pet food

The legal actions were related to elevated levels of vitamin D in the pet food company’s recalled wet dog food. Plaintiffs claimed their dogs’ deaths resulted from elevated vitamin D in recalled dog food.

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Point/Counterpoint: Lystn raw pet food FDA warnings

The FDA and a raw pet food maker disagreed about the presence of salmonella in Lystn’s A+ Answers Straight Beef Formula for Dogs.

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