Few researchers have stopped to ask if academic and market research provides the specific insights that pet food industry executives feel they need.

Discover how researchers added to the evidence that avocado has potential as a dog food ingredient, contrary to veterinary and popular recommendations against the fruit.

While not every dog has the same sensitivity to copper, the group suggested that a safe upper limit be established for copper in dog food to protect those dogs that are.

Neither Mars Petcare not Nestlé Purina PetCare use sharks in any of their recipes. Both have supply chain protocols that should screen out ingredients made with sharks, along with other endangered species.

Byproducts from seeds and grains have traditionally been used in pet foods as sustainable, inexpensive and protein-rich ingredients.

Microbiologists grew antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus bacteria found in pet foods bought in Europe. Although pet food hasn’t been documented passing these germs to people, a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes could be created in the gut of dogs.

ASF is not a threat to human health and cannot be transmitted from pigs to humans. The virus is not a food safety issue either.

Several types of plant oil have been covered in Ingredients Issues and evaluated for their use in dog, cat and other pet food formulations

In an experiment, aged domestic cats most preferred food served at the temperature of a warm-blooded prey item.

Scientists classified eleven households as having experienced “probable” transmission, and 20 households experienced “possible” transmission.