Nestec S.a.

Ralston Purina Company

Cathryn (Kati) Fritz-Jung

Donald Roland Speck

Sandeep Bhatnagar

Karl L Kettinger

Stephen E Woerz

Bhajmohan (Ricky) Singh

Jill A Stoll

Gary J Woodward

Peifang Zhang

A pet food and method for manufacturing pet food is provided. The method includes extruding a base meal formulation, grinding the extruded meal, and pressure forming the ground meal into solid form.

Pressure formed pet food and method

A process for making a dry, stable intermediate pet food including meat includes the steps of combining a plurality of ingredients specified by a basal pet food formula, wherein the plurality of ingredients includes a slurry of meat, mixing the plurality of ingredients to form a basal mixture, extruding the basal mixture, cutting the extruded basal mixture into flakes, and drying the flakes to a moisture content of less than about 10% by weight. In one embodiment, to make a finished pet food composition, the flakes are shipped for final processing to a processing facility having finishing equipment including grinding, extruding and coating equipment.

Process for dry stable intermediate pet food composition

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Marshall, MN, United States of America

Cathryn (Kati) Fritz-Jung