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bond pet foods shipped the first two tons of animal protein produced by fermentation. hills pet nutritionbegins formulating test products with innovative and more sustainable ingredients for regulatory review and market evaluation.
Separately, the companies announced a second joint development agreement to create additional animal proteins that could potentially be used in Hill products. The partnership between Bond and Hills, announced in late 2021, aims to develop a more sustainable source of animal protein to meet the dietary needs of dogs and cats.
The two tonnes produced by Bond marks a major milestone towards the commercialization of fermentation technology for pet food applications. The scale of the delivery will allow Hills to formulate a variety of products for evaluation at its Pet Nutrition Center in Topeka, Kansas. That data will be used for final ingredient review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine and for preparing prototypes for market evaluation.
“We are excited to continue our relationship with Bond and support their truly innovative approach to producing animal protein in a more sustainable way that meets high quality standards.”Hills Pet said Dave Baroga, Nutrition's executive vice president of science and technology.
Applying established technology to pet food applications
Rich Kelleman, founder and CEO of Bond Pet Foods, said producing large quantities of product at the 45,000 liter scale is a major milestone in the Bond-Hill partnership. “Furthermore, Hill’s commitment to expand our collaboration shows that we see opportunity in Bond ingredients for the future of food for them and the pet industry,” he said. .
Bond says the company's precision fermentation platform is safe and well-established, using processes that have existed for more than half a century to make everything from cheese-making enzymes (rennet) to vitamin B12. Building.
The process has been carefully revised to more efficiently produce proteins such as chicken, turkey and beef for pet food applications without raising and processing livestock.
The company noted that in the U.S. alone, 74 million dogs and 56 million cats currently consume large amounts of animal protein in households. As a result, as noted in his 2017 study published in the journal Science, Pro Swan, Pets account for up to 30% of the carbon emissions associated with domestic meat consumption.This represents both CO2 and additional greenhouse gas emissions from animal production.
according to pet food industry Top pet food company hills pet nutrition sells more than 300 products primarily through authorized pet supply retailers and veterinarians in more than 80 countries around the world.
bond pet foods is a Boulder, Colorado-based company that uses biotechnology to produce meat proteins that are nutritionally equivalent to their conventional counterparts. Using some of the same processes employed in craft beer brewing, Bond produces high-quality animal proteins through fermentation, harvests them to meet the nutritional requirements of companion animals, and uses their raw materials to We supply this to manufacturers of pet food, snacks, and supplements.
