Venison is a novel protein source that’s getting some love and attention from some OEM manufacturers. Why? Because pet food manufacturers get to help environmentally too. You see, deer are considered a nuisance that wreaks havoc on forest vegetation. Deer me While...
As a responsible premium private label, you would want to ensure that your pet food products still have its nutritive value intact. While you can always rely on your private label partner to ensure this, knowing what’s happening and the processes in making pet...
Many pet food brands have claimed that their products use human grade ingredients. But what is human grade? Simply put, human grade means the ingredient is edible enough to be eaten by humans. But that doesn’t mean it’s already healthy for pets to consume food...
In an upswing trend are sales of pet foods with human grade ingredients. It’s safe to say that this will last for quite some time—maybe forever—as many pet owners are on the lookout for the best and healthiest pet food in the market. Premium and ultra-premium pet...
By Andrew Prest, PhD Microbiology ‘Sustainability’ has only become mainstream within the business lexicon in the last 10 years. Sustainability is an extremely difficult concept to define because it is essentially a moral phenomenon by which the conflicting and...
By Andrew Prest, PhD Microbiology Dogs share some carnivorous traits with cats as both lack salivary amylase, have a short gastro intestinal tract and are unable to synthesize vitamin D (National Research Council, 2006). In contrast, there are 3 genes, AMY2B, MGAM and...