Ingredient sourcing and sustainability issues have steered pet food formulators toward utilizing inventive protein ingredients.

The analysis showed that BioCraft Pet Nutrition’s BioCrafted Meat™ emits one-twelfth of the carbon dioxide of conventional beef byproducts. 

Prefera Petfood will use BioCraft’s cell-cultured mouse protein in a new cat food formula.

The company received registration from the Austrian authorities, enabling it to being selling ingredients to pet food producers in Europe.

CULT Food Science’s subsidiary Further Foods Inc. announced the new food toppers for dogs and cats will be available in October.