As everyone in the pet food industry knows: there isn’t a thing people wouldn’t do for their pet. To ensure the health of their two- and four legged companions people will go to enormous lengths.
Not only do consumers check the quality of the food they serve, they also check the reliability and quality of the ingredients that are being used by their pet food brand.
Because a typical pet food producer easily depends on more than 100 suppliers, often from all around the globe, collecting and processing the resulting quality data for each batch and for each supplier is an enormous task. Assuring the quality of pet food products can therefore be quite complex. It is however not a task to be taken lightly as the result of just one substandard delivery of raw materials can be catastrophic for the final product and brand.
How can pet food producers make sure their suppliers deliver the quality they have agreed upon?
As a nutrition industry specialist Adifo has been dedicated on guaranteeing safe and good quality nutritional products for over 40 years. Through the use of our state-of-the-art BESTMIX software we help organizations turn their quality data into valuable information that helps shape their business.
To help our customers assure they can deliver the quality and nutritional claims on the label we have developed theBESTMIX Quality Control software that is constantly updated to meet the latest standards in regulation and compliance.
Specifically developed as a quality control platform for the nutrition industry, the BESTMIX Quality Control software easily collects quality data from your ingredients and end products. No matter the source (NIR instruments, lab analysis results, …) all data is saved into a single central database. From within this single source of truth the data is analyzed and presented in clear, fully-customizable reports and charts that support the evaluation of your products’ quality.
Quality data from ingredient deliveries can also be used in your formulation software to guarantee you are working with up to date nutritional values and not with rough estimates. By updating the ingredient matrix, you can deliver the quality and nutritional claims as proclaimed on the label – nothing more and nothing less.
The use of BESTMIX Quality Control and BESTMIX Feed formulation is already improving decision making, product reliability and efficiency in many feed and pet food producers around the world. If you would like to learn more about how we can help you guarantee high quality product at the lowest cost be sure to watch our petfood webinar recording.
To secure the future of their brands pet food producers have to make sure they can rely on their suppliers to deliver the required quality of ingredients and comply with all relevant regulation (such as HACCP). However as this article rightly mentions, the standards put forward by legislation do not necessarily guarantee pet food safety and do not prevent incidents in itself. They are a great starting point to assure food safety hazards can be identified, controlled and monitored but from that point on it’s every producer for themselves.