Changes in demand for pet food, as a result of the increasing humanisation of pets and an increasing interest in the nutritional and health requirements of animals, are creating significant opportunities for manufacturers to develop higher value...

Each pet food manufacturer has its own procedure for developing a new product or modifying a current brand. The basic procedures are in short described here.

The premix business is an essential component of the success and growth of the pet food industry.

Palatability is a term used to describe how well a dog or cat likes the taste, smell, and texture of a food. A premium pet food manufacturer spends a considerable amount of time conducting controlled feeding studies to determine the right combin...

Many of the recent advances in pet nutrition have evolved from investigations to understand in more detail the physiological requirements of the animal.

Nutrigenomics is an emerging science that investigates how individual nutrients, or their metabolites, interact with the mammalian genome to regulate the structure or expression of genes.

On March 17, 2007 Menu Foods, Inc. a major manufacturer of dog and cat food in North America recalled 60 million containers of wet food after it received reports of pets suffering kidney failure.

Toxins, and especially mycotoxins, are a severe problem in the animal feed industry. Mycotoxins are toxins produced by mushrooms, molds and yeasts and come to the forefront when maize or grain are badly stored (in wet areas for example).

Pet food is of great importance worldwide, and the production is steady growing and with an ever increasing development in processing methods. New equipment and techniques improve the feeding value of pet food.

The European Union contains around 450 specialised pet food companies to serve the demand for the 60 million cats and 56 million dogs in the EU.