The petfood industry has changed over the last decade. Pets have acquired a special status with their owners. More often the pets’ needs are related to their own, and more money is spent every year on petfood, snacks, animal health, accessories etc. The petfood industry has perfectly anticipated these developments and offers petfood and snacks especially for different life stages, different breeds, different levels of activity, with health promoting ingredients, against health problems, etc.

The quality of petfood needs to be outstanding to meet pet owners’ standards. To achieve these high standards, the petfood industry makes use of feed additives. With feed additives, the product quality and palatability can be guaranteed. Pet food usually has a minimum shelf life of 12 months. In this period the product quality and palatability needs to be stable.

To maintain the high product quality and palatability there are different area’s of attention. To prevent mould growth in feed raw materials and in finished pet food, ProSid® MI can be added in the production process. To prevent the fats from going rancid and to preserve the level of vitamins and other valuable important ingredients that are added to the petfood, ProTain® antioxidants can be added in the production process.

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