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Featured Blog Posts – May 2010 Archive (5)

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New safety reporting portal a good thing, but ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) just joined forces to launch a new online portal for anyone--manufacturers, consumers, researchers, health professionals, public health officials, etc.--to report a potential safety issue with a food for humans, pets or feed animals.


This new portal now encompasses…
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Added by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson on May 26, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Engage! Nurturing Customer Trust Online

The first thing most people do when they want information these days, is to sit down at their PC. For many years, the Internet was simply that - an information source about your products, that otherwise left the customer anonymous and cold. If they enquired about something via e-mail, they received stiff,…

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Added by Melody McKinnon on May 20, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Interzoo bigger than ever ... but where's the innovation?

Were any of you fortunate enough to attend Interzoo in Nuremberg, Germany, last week? I'm honored to say I was. For anyone who's not aware of this event, it's billed as the largest pet trade show in the world, and I for one see no reason to dispute that claim. It's huge. As in 10 halls full of exhibits, easily outpacing most other pet trade shows around the world by a factor of five to 10.


For one thing, it happens only every two years,…
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Added by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson on May 19, 2010 at 10:03am — 2 Comments

Private label gets a boost

The global recession seemingly was able to accomplish something that had never really happened before: It caused growth of private label petfood in the US.


Historically, the US market for private label--for any type of consumer goods--has never been strong. In terms of petfood, that had started to change over the past few years as huge retail players like Walmart, PetSmart and Petco launched their own store brands.


But the awful economy and its…
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Added by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson on May 11, 2010 at 10:08am — No Comments

Sustainability comes to petfood

Many of you and your fellow petfood industry professionals were kind enough to respond to our survey on sustainability.… Continue

Added by Debbie Phillips-Donaldson on May 4, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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