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PET FOOD ingredients that promote improvements in pets’ energy level, skin and coat, teeth, gums and digestion. No added ﬁllers, artiﬁcial colors or ﬂavors are included. Pet owners might not be able to get their kids to eat veggies, but they can treat Fido to Pegetables Dog Chew Treats from Kansas City Mo.-based Splintek. They are made from natural ingredients, antioxidants, vitamins A, B, C, D and E, ﬁber, calcium, essential fatty acids, protein, carrots (to ﬁght macular degeneration), corn (for a shiny coat) and celery (to maintain healthy joints and detoxify the liver). Or they can ﬁ ll the bowl with Doggie Dance chicken tenders, liver biscotti or barley grass powder. To alleviate consumer concern, many pet food manufacturers are now using “natural” preservatives such as vitamin C, vitamin E and oils of rosemary, clove or other spices to preserve the fats in foods, even though they have a shorter shelf life of about six months. To be labeled organic, pet food must contain at least 95 percent of ingredients certiﬁed organic for human consumption. Business has been booming for natural and organic pet food companies such as Castor and Pollux Pet Works, Clackamas, Ore.; Natural Pet Nutrition, Boulder, Colo.; Waggintails, Pittsﬁeld, Mass.; Halo Pet Foods, Tampa, Fla. The market has attracted Newman’s Own Organics, Aptos, Calif., which makes dry, canned and treats for cats and dogs. All of its pet foods are made in the U.S., are certiﬁed organic by Oregon Tilth, and do not contain wheat gluten or rice protein concentrate. What they do have (for example, this is Natural Chicken Meal) is chicken fat (a highly palatable source of essential fatty acids), ﬁsh meal with omega-3 essen- parsley. The parsley serves as an intestinal tial fatty acids, organic soy meal, organic calmative and aids in nutrient absorption brown rice, organic barley, organic peas, and elimination of “doggie breath.” “With the rise in the number of cat organic ﬂax seed meal (a good source of lignans, an important phytonutrient with and dog problems directly related to poor powerful antioxidant properties), organic nutrition, we offer pets the same high oats, organic carrots, organic sorghum, quality food we buy for ourselves,” says founder 11:56 AM Page 1 kelp, sea salt, probiotics, taurine, and fresh4/13/2007 and president Nell Newman. chemical processing 4_07.qxd Sanitary Hygienic Dust-Free The best solution for moving bulk materials in packaging is with PIAB Vacuum Conveying. Whether you're feeding material to a form, fill, seal machine or a volumetric feeder or feeding material to a mixer or a blender, PIAB's C-Series vacuum conveying systems make it all happen. Sanitary - 3-A & USDA accepted. Hygienic - quick-change filters prevent cross-contamination of ingredients. Dust-Free - vacuum technology by compressed air prevents product blow-by or leakage. MORE ON THE WEB A great story on the wellness trend in pet foods and use of nutraceuticals for four-legged ailments leads off our webexclusive coverage of this subject. FoodProcessing.com also has stories on new product introductions in the category, how big-name food companies entered this segment, a pet food formulated speciﬁcally to deal with seasonal changes, the buying habits of pet owners and market share numbers (IRI data) for and dry, wet and semi-moist dog foods and treats. Go to www.FoodProcessing.com. WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM For more information, call (800) 321-7422/(781) 337-7309 or e-mail us at info@piab.com www.piab.com DECEMBER 2007 FOOD PROCESSING • 27 http://www.foodprocessing.com http://www.piab.com http://www.foodprocessing.com http://www.foodprocessing.com http://www.piab.com http://www.foodprocessing.com

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Contents Editor's Plate NewsBites Rollout Food Biz Kids Processor of the Year: Mars Snackfood U.S. Mass Production Meets Custom Manufacturing Product Development: Bone appetit! Show Report: Pack/Process Expo and Worldwide Food Expo New Product Profiles Toops Scoops

Food Processing - December 2007

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