These essential activities include food safety and animal inspection services that, if stopped, could impact food safety, animal welfare and public health.
Stand-up pouches, flexible packaging and cartons offering sustainability and convenience features are giving processors and consumers additional options to the traditional canned format.
Topics on the agenda include the transportation of bulk fats and oils, oxidation and rendering, controlling pathogens and environmental monitoring, among several others.
Increased vigilance, innovation, more reliable technologies and ever-improving QC measures help pet food processors offer a broad range of safer products.