Pet Food Processing

Catalog description

The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of pet foods, including food products meant for dogs, cats, pet rodents, pet snakes, ornamental fish, exotic and captive wild animals, and the various processing technologies that are deployed for their production. Extrusion, baking, canning, and injection molding technologies will be covered. Other important aspects of pet food production, such as ingredient handling and compounding, quality control, HACCP and sanitation, and packaging will also be discussed.