by Cathy Alinovi | Jul 17, 2018 | Latest News, Our Stories
The short story: the problem is that we are fighting 50 years of training. The competition is way ahead of us. They have inundated the marketplace with the concept that “people food is not healthy”, that “responsible pet owners feed pet food”. We now have three...
by Cathy Alinovi | Jul 4, 2018 | AAFCO, AAFCO Meetings, FSMA, Labeling Updates, Latest News
The 2018 Annual AAFCO meeting is fast approaching – July 30-August 1 in Ft Lauderdale. Not planning on attending? No worries, Next Gen PFMA will be there representing its members. Here are some of the issues, some more impactful than others, on the docket: Model...
by Cathy Alinovi | May 24, 2018 | AAFCO, Labeling Updates, Latest News
Next Gen PFMA members, today, received notification of proposed changes to carbohydrate reporting in the guaranteed analysis of the pet food label. This information is confidential thus is not available for public dissemination. As your AAFCO representative, we...
by Cathy Alinovi | May 16, 2018 | AAFCO, FSMA, Latest News
Some of you may be wondering what became of the “Saving Raw” conference call. Never fear, many discussions based on the original discussion have been going on behind the scenes! This post is a compilation of the updates and progress by Next Gen PFMA to date and...
by Cathy Alinovi | May 2, 2018 | AAFCO, Latest News
Members who produce human grade pet food will receive an email from Next Gen PFMA, their representative in AAFCO, this week with details of a new proposal where USDA and FDA will work together to validate human grade pet food claims. Before now, manufacturers of foods...
