The realm of pet food safety quality confronts substantial challenges, necessitating attentive focus to ensure pets’ well-being and consumer contentment. These challenges revolve around ingredient sourcing, processing, formulation, and distribution. Regulatory changes have occurred, varying requirements across markets for nutritional testing. Each process step is crucial to prevent contamination in ingredients and final products.
Sustainability is vital too, involving efficient resource use for producing safe, palatable pet food. Responsible design and operation minimize environmental impact on communities. Addressing these demands mandates comprehensive approaches, including stringent ingredient sourcing, robust processing, quality control, accurate labeling, and regulatory adherence. By emphasizing food safety and quality, adopting waste reduction schemes, and eco-friendly packaging, the pet food industry can provide nourishing, secure, and sustainable pet products, fostering consumer trust.
Our Services Dedicated to Pet Food Quality and Safety
Pet Food Laboratory Services: testing key indicators to ensure safety, regulatory compliance, and product quality.
Our Tailor-suited Services for the Pet Food Industries
Chemistry
- Nutritional: Vitamins & Minerals, Protein, Nutritional Packages
- Additives, antinutrients, plant toxins, process indicators, water activity
- Contaminants: Mycotoxins, dioxins, Heavy metals, melamine, cyanuric acid, biogenic amines, PFAS, MOSH-MOAH, microplastics, process contaminants
- Allergen analysis: Gluten, Food allergens
- Residues: pesticides, vet drugs
- Rancidity Indicators, Peroxide Value, Free Fatty Acids (FFA)
- Packaging testing
- Palatability and digestibility
Contact our team for a customised analytical plan, according to your product’s specificities, geographies, and your specific challenges:
Microbiology
- Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli, E. coli STEC, Campylobacter
- Clostridium botulinum, Cl. perfringens
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Aerobic Plate Count, Anaerobic, Yeasts & Moulds,
- Coliforms, Sporeformers
- Environmental Monitoring Program
Learn more about our Microbiological testing services here:
Silliker Food Science Center
Validation of processes and the development of new pet food formulas necessitate microbiological risk assessment, performance of challenge tests, investigation into spoilage issues, and other tailored studies.
Addressing key challenges of your product’s lifecycle with our expert team:
Sensorial Analysis & Consumers Studies
Pet food’s acceptability results from combining pet’s sensory attraction and pet owner preferences linked with nutritional and sustainability properties. Our Sensory team of experts assesses you to find the proper methodologies to understand these preferences and take actions to position your product in the market.
Discover our new Pet Food Sensory Lab:
Mérieux NutriSciences provides comprehensive support to the Pet Food Industry at every stage of the supply chain
Learn More about Safety Hazards, Quality, and Sustainability Challenges for Pet Food
Key Regulations on Pet Food
Moreover, the European association of reference for pet food, the FEDIAF (European Pet Food Industry Federation), has issued nutritional guidelines that identify specific nutrients and reference values, based on the latest scientific knowledge.
For a complete list of all regulations, contact our Regulatory Experts:
Blue Paper: Pet Food
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