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April 17, 2007 |
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Recall update: Canadian products affected Among the products covered by the expanded recall is Royal Canin Canada's Medi-Cal Feline Dissolution Formula canned diet, made by Menu Foods and sold only through veterinarians. A single production lot contained the contaminated wheat gluten, the company said. Menu has since posted an updated list of recalled products on its website at http://menufoods.com/recall/. The FDA has blocked wheat gluten imports from a Chinese company while it investigates how melamine could have contaminated the vegetable protein.
Plan now to attend Petfood Forum Europe These are a few of the topics for Petfood Forum Europe 2007:
For details and to register, go to www.wattnet.com/petfoodforum/home.cfm or E-mail Marcia Riddle at Riddle@wattnet. To find out more about Victam International and available hotels, visit www.victam.com.
Over the next few months, Three Dog Bakery will be introducing several new products to compliment the existing product lines. Some of the new products include Spearmint Bagels; Itty Bitty Bones; Entree for Dogs; and a reformulated All-Natural Dry Kibble Dog Food. Bakery growth is also an immediate priority for Three Dog Bakery. In the next three years, Three Dog Bakery plans to triple its network of bakeries. Currently, the company has 39 bakeries in the US and Canada and eight in Japan. By 2010, the company plans to have 130 bakeries throughout North America, Japan and Western Europe. Three Dog Bakery's packaging and graphics have also been completely redesigned. The new packaging is executed in a way that improves functionality and convenience for clients, simplifies the product lines and enlivens the products, according to the company. The company is currently developing a more functional website. The site will incorporate many elements of the new package design, further building on the refreshed visual elements of the brand.
AFB International signs joint venture agreement with Inghams Enterprises With the joint venture, AFB now operates six state-of-the art manufacturing facilities in North America, Brazil , the Netherlands and Australia. With Inghams, the sales and support staff will be expanded to include an office in Melbourne, Australia. The two companies are already working closely together to identify and fulfill the palatability needs of the petfood markets they serve. The joint venture will trade as AFB International Pty Ltd. Bill Barr & Co. moves its offices
K-Tron completes acquisition of Chinese business Wuxi K-Tron Colormax will be located in Luoshe Key Open Industrial Park, Wuxi City, in the Huishan district of Jiangsu province, approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The company will initially employ approximately 65 people and will design, manufacture, market and service volumetric and gravimetric single and twin screw feeders and controls, vibratory trays, pelletizers and pneumatic screen changers for use in plastics compounding and injection molding processes. Gilmour promoted to Stedman president
New National Pet Food Commission formed The industry-government partnership will have two main goals:
Information on the National Pet Food Commission's charge and a complete list of commissioners are available at http://www.petfoodreport.com/. At the conclusion of its work, the National Pet Food Commission will issue a report outlining its findings and offering its recommendations to the industry and regulators. PFI President Duane Ekedahl announced formation of the National Pet Food Commission today during his testimony before the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies. Ekedahl was joined at the hearing by Dr. Angele Thompson, an expert in nutritional biochemistry and a member of the American Academy of Veterinary Nutrition, who will chair the National Pet Food Commission. Dr. Thompson said the commission will have its first meeting in the coming days. |
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One brand that benefited from this incident was Pedigree. This premium dog food brand became the leader of dog food in all categories: wet food, dry food and treats. The company used an advertisement focused on health featuring veterinarians as promoters of the products. Even though it is an imported brand, Pedigree has a good distribution network and thus managed to absorb the excess demand. Euromonitor International publishes petfood and pet care reports on 52 country markets. Click here for more information about petfood and pet care reports from Euromonitor International and to buy reports online.
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Clear, high-moisture barrier lidstock New on-line water activity control system
Ergonomic lifter/transporter with powered lift Jumbo display digital probe lab thermometer
Study: E-Mail may lose the war against spam Nearly 97 billion E-mails will flow through the world's electronic arteries daily this year, IDC predicted, and more than 40 billion of them will be spam. “This is the first year that spam E-mail volumes are expected to exceed person-to-person E-mail volumes sent worldwide,” IDC said.
Not everyone agrees, however, that E-mail is losing its vaunted status in the communications hierarchy. Companies aren't being driven away from E-mail by spammers, declares Dan Druker, executive vice president for marketing for Postini, an E-mail security and hosting company. “We don't see a shifting away from E-mail driven by the bad guys,” he said. If anything, he continued, companies remain more determined than ever to fight spammers. Blogs rank among top websites Blogging is an international phenomenon, with 37% of all blogs in Japanese. English-language blogs rank second, at 33%, and Chinese is the third-most-blogged language, at 8%. Blogging has even caught on in Iran. Farsi is now the 10th-most-popular blogging language.
Globalization replaces localization More than half of those who globalized said that they had spent less than US$50,000, although half say they expect to increase that amount. Among large corporations, 18% said they had spent more than US$500,000 on the process. Over 16% of US sites offer some Spanish-language content on their sites, and another 22% plan to do so during the next 12 months. Small companies are especially interested in adding Spanish to their sites. The report claims that among those globalizing their English sites, German is the most-supported language on the web, although Spanish is expected to catch up within 12 months, and simplified Chinese is coming on strong as well.
Diet type affects viscosity of ileal digesta Concentrations of total dietary fiber (TDF) in the diets ranged from 1.8% to 26.5%. Ileal digesta viscosities ranged from 1326 to 46,641 and 7748 to 10,208 cP for canned and dry treatments, respectively. Ileal DM concentrations ranged from 8.2% to 16.2% and 15.4% to 15.8% for canned and dry treatments, respectively. Dry matter intake ranged from 224 to 290 and 295 to 325 g/day for canned and dry treatments, respectively.
During gastric digestion simulation, viscosity peaked at 2 and 4 hours for all three canned diets and dry diets, respectively. During small intestinal digestion simulation, viscosity peaked between 6 and 12 hours for most diets except one canned diet and one dry diet, which contained high concentrations of TDF (25.1% and 26.5%, respectively). Viscosity of these solutions peaked between 12 and 18 hours. Viscosity of ileal digesta and simulated gastric and small intestinal digesta was the lowest after consumption of canned diets with the exception of the canned diet containing very high concentrations of dietary fiber (25.1% TDF). Ileal digesta viscosity of dogs appears to be responsive to the diet type characteristics. Source: C.L. Dikeman, M. R. Murphy, G. C. Fahey Jr, 2007. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition 91(3-4):139-147.
Metabolomic approach to assessing the efficacy of an antioxidant cocktail Significant results were observed in both the untrained and trained dogs on the supplement compared with the unsupplemented dogs. The supplemented/trained dogs had significantly greater recovery as assessed by return to or below baseline values at 24 hours after exercise for many key compounds, including phenylalanine, histidine and lipids. The unsupplemented/trained groups still had elevated tyrosine, phenylalanine, methionine and lipid levels at 24 hours after exercise. Similar results were observed in the unsupplemented/untrained dogs. For example, numerous compounds were below baseline at 24 hours after exercise in the supplemented groups versus the unsupplemented groups. Significant differences were also observed when groups were compared across time. At baseline, supplementation resulted in decreased glutamine in both the trained and untrained dogs. Most notably, supplementation in the trained group resulted in less pyruvate, acetoacetate, phenylalanine, methionine, histidine, free fatty acids and lipoproteins at 24 hours after exercise compared with the unsupplemented/trained group. We conclude that antioxidant supplementation is protective in both trained and untrained dogs. Source: M.K. Waldron, et al., 2007. Proceedings of the Nestlé Purina Nutrition Forum, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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