Pet Food Safety Ingredients for Maintaining Product Quality
Food safety in the pet food industry is a shared responsibility among renderers, ingredient suppliers, pet food manufacturers, distributors and even the pet owners who feed the final pet food or pet treat to their companion pets. Ensuring the safety and quality of commercial pet foods is both a challenging and complex process.
Common Pet Food Manufacturing Challenges
Pet food manufacturers face challenges like oxidative deterioration and microbial degradation of both their raw materials and finished pet food products. Failure to control microbial and oxidative deterioration in pet foods can result in loss of nutritional quality, reduced palatability, and reduced shelf-life.
