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Further afield in India, the US-headquartered private-equity firm L Catterton acquired a minority stake in Indian pet food Drools Pet Food Private Limited. In March, US pet-food start-up Bundle x Joy had closed a $1m seed round, led by an accelerator in which pet-food giant Mars is a partner. Keywords: Pet Food; Deals; News EN Pet Food Deals News N.PAG N.PAG 1 07/03/23 20230626 NES 230626 US manufacturer of "humanised" dog treats Three Dog Bakery has been acquired by private-equity firm Topspin Consumer Partners. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: Pet Food; Interviews EN Pet Food Interviews N.PAG N.PAG 1 01/23/23 20230117 NES 230117 When Harry Bremner submitted his master's dissertation business proposal in 2021, his advisor thought the idea was so good he offered to fund it. JF: When you were doing your market research what were people's perceptions of inse... I HB: i When asked the question "would you purchase an insect-based dog food product?" Just Food: You're no stranger to entrepreneurship; what was it about the pet-food industry an... I Harry Bremner: i Regulation was passed by the EU in 2017 to allow insects to be used for fish feed. "People prefer to feed insects to their dogs before they eat them" - Tuggs founder Harry Bremner on navigating the untapped insect pet-food market. [Extracted from the article]

A Texas A&M AgriLife researcher is taking a page out of human disease research to see if dogs might be able to sniff out bovine respiratory disease, BRD, one of the largest health challenges for the feedlot cattle industry. "If these dogs can discriminate between samples from sick and healthy cattle under highly controlled conditions, then producers could have another tool in their cattle-management toolbox when it comes to detecting BRD", Daigle said. [Extracted from the article]

Voff Premium Pet Food manufactures cat and dog food, as well as treats and supplements, manufactured at plants spread across Finland, Germany and the UK. Keywords: Pet Food; Deal News; News EN Pet Food Deal News News N.PAG N.PAG 1 09/20/22 20220914 NES 220914 Voff Premium Pet Food, the Sweden-based pet-food business, has made UK peer Nova Dog Chews its latest acquisition. [Extracted from the article]

The Parliament has been witnessing Opposition protests over the latest India-China clashes in Arunachal Pradesh. Ruckus in Parliament over Kharge's "dog" remark, winter session likely to end sine die on Friday Both Houses of Parliament again witnessed chaotic scenes on the tenth day of Parliament's winter session today amid the Opposition's uproar over the demand for a discussion on the India-China border situation. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: Pet Food; News; Homepage Top Section EN Pet Food News Homepage Top Section N.PAG N.PAG 1 08/30/21 20210825 NES 210825 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to Midwestern Pet Foods over contaminated products linked to more than a hundred dog deaths. Just Food has asked Midwestern Pet Foods for its response to the FDA's warning letter. [Extracted from the article]

In recent years, reports of Phytophthora detections have increased from plant production facilities supplying plant stock for restoration projects (Garbelotto and others 2018). When introduced into new natural habitats through infected plant stock, the potential for Phytophthora infection and spread is high. Monitoring of nursery stock is key to reducing new introductions into wildlands, however, sampling in nurseries is currently considered too expensive and complex to be performed on a large scale. This study was undertaken to determine if it would be possible to train ecological scent detection dogs to discern Phytophthora species and discriminate Phytophthora odors from other scents in leaves and soil of infected plants. The U.C. Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Lab teamed with H. T. Harvey & Associates to develop a Phytophthora detection dog pilot study (Swiecki and others 2018), starting with a single dog. The training has occurred in phases, first to expose the dog to recognize Phytophthora odor in a range of media. Four species of Phytophthora - P. ramorum, P, cinnamomi, P. nemorosa and P. cactorum - were grown in four different media - soil-water solution, soil-water-pea broth solution, local soil collected under oak trees, and commercial potting soil. The dog had a 100% detection level in blind testing consisting of 10 trials each. Phase two of the training employed infected Rhododendron plants for the scent trials. P. ramorum and P. nemorosa were inoculated on leaves, while P. cinnamomi and P. cactorum were soil inoculated. The dog again had a 100% detection success level in blind testing. In phase three, discrimination training of Phytophthora from co-occurring Pythium isolates was performed to ensure that the detection is genus specific. In addition, we tested the dog's ability to correctly identify Phytophthora infection in plant species other than Rhododendron spp. A fifth species of Phytophthora - P. tentaculata - was added to the dog's repertoire during this phase. The dog had 100% detection rate in double-blind testing consisting of 10 trials on the new Phytophthora species and very promising results during the Pythium discrimination trial. Results from the study so far suggest that ecological scent detection dogs may offer an innovative and reliable method to survey for Phytophthora in a variety of settings. Dogs could offer a rapid way to reliably detect the pathogen in a variety of controlled environments, such as nurseries; to prescreen plants before they are installed at habitat restoration sites; and possibly to identify infected naturally occurring plants and soil in the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]