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ACADEMIC PARTNERS
North Carolina
STATE UNIVERSITY
Expanding existing feed programs to serve the pet food industry.
NC State's Feed Mill
has been recently
expanded to better
serve the pet food
industry in the future.
North Carolina State University
N
North Carolina State University has long been focused
on livestock and poultry production and nutrition, but
new developments in its poultry, animal science and extrusion
programs aim to serve the growing companion
animal nutrition industry.
The university offers livestock and poultry ingredient
approval trials that can be used as " stepping stones "
for pet food ingredient approvals, according to Marissa
Herchler Cohen, area specialized agent of animal food
safety in the Department of Poultry Science at NC State.
Graduate students at NC State conduct research related
to the companion animal microbiome, how feeding
behavior differs between breeds, and the appropriateness
of various ingredients for use in pet food. Experts
at the university are often called upon by manufacturers
and consumers to answer questions about labeling.
NC State offers several companion animal-focused
undergraduate- and graduate-level courses through its
animal science program. Students can learn about pet
food manufacturing through comparative nutrition,
animal nutrition and companion animal management
courses, as well as through the extrusion program.
The university's Feed Mill Education Unit has historically
served as a commercial livestock feed mill and a
way for feed producers to learn processes and test for
food safety. More recently, the unit has been expanded
to include an extrusion and value-added specialist,
which will allow the program to expand into the dog
and cat food markets down the road.
The Feed Mill is equipped with a quality assurance
laboratory to test for moisture, protein content, mycotoxins
and other quality measurements, as well as an
extrusion lab that recently added a differential scanning
calorimeter (DSC) and a rapid visco analyzer (RVA)
to examine the starch contents of raw ingredients and
finished products. The facility was built for precision
manufacturing and includes various sampling points
throughout the process to gauge product stability and
uniformity at various stages.
NC State also offers continued education opportunities
for industry members, including a Preventive
Control for Animal Food training course. The university
also maintains an Animal Food Safety Program, which
covers food safety and regulatory compliance under
the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Through
this program, the Department of Poultry Science has
partnered with the Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services to create a webinar series geared toward
livestock producers who are looking to start utilizing
their byproducts in pet food and treat products.
" This series has been helpful in providing livestock
producers with a sustainable pathway for their byproducts,
as well as raising awareness for the regulatory
requirements for selling pet food in North Carolina, "
Cohen said.
The university also regularly works with pet food
processors through its NC State Feed Milling Extension
program to offer animal food industry training and programming,
and its extrusion program has its sights set
on serving as a future hub of research, education and
training for the pet food industry.
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