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3 Things You Can Expect From a
Quality Ingredient Supply Chain
What defines quality? It's a vague descriptor that can be applied to most
anything without the processes and precautions to back up the quality
claim. With decades of experience in the pet food industry, DSM has
worked to exemplify quality as it pertains to pet nutrition, and it comes
down to three defining characteristics.

1. Safety Assurances
Following U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), each of DSM's
North American facilities follows a strict food safety plan which
includes five components:
* Adherence to current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations
* Implementation of a food safety plan, complete with hazard analysis
* Establishment of sanitary transport standards
* Verification of all foreign suppliers
* Controls throughout the supply chain

2. Backward Integrated
With the safest and most reliable backward-integrated supply chain, our
commitment to the quality, consistency and integrity of our blends and
nutritional ingredients is second-to-none.
Transparency throughout the manufacturing process is key to ensuring
quality. By understanding what steps are being taken at each stage of
the process, you can trust that the controls and checks are in place to
deliver the ingredients you expect.

3. Technical Expertise
At the forefront of DSM Pet Nutrition is our commitment to our
customers demonstrated through:
Technical knowledge and expertise: Technical Marketing Analytical
Services (TMAS) and Nutritional Services work together to deliver the
best solutions to our customers including in-house analytes, assays,
training, technical support, and verification studies.
The DSM Optimum Vitamin Nutrition (OVN™) program assists our
customers in developing optimal nutrition packages based on the
knowledge that:
Vitamins are involved in most metabolic functions, so an improper
inclusion in pet food can result in compromised health.

7 Numbers to Know About
DSM Nutritional Products

4 PLANTS

CERTIFIED PET
FOOD PREMIX

IN NORTH AMERICA
CAPABLE IN EVERY
APPLICATION

5 VALUES

ENSURING QUALITY PET FOOD
INGREDIENTS AND PREMIXES

BASIC MANUFACTURE OF

ESSENTIAL

11 VITAMINS

46

NUTRITIONAL

INGREDIENT

FACILITIES

AROUND
THE
WORLD

50+YEARS

OF EXPERIENCE MANUFACTURING
PET FOOD INGREDIENTS

100%

AUTOMATED QUALITY
VERIFICATION

13,500+
EMPLOYEES

WORLDWIDE



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