Beef was and is an important 'claim' ingredient for petfood. With the production of beef meat for human food application there a lot co-products produced. These co-products like meat trimmings, bones, fat & organs can find a sustainable and appreciated application in pet food. IQI cooperates strategically with large beef processors and is developing multiple added value and functional beef based pet food ingredients. As part of OSI-group, IQI can also leverage the extensive supply chain of the OSI-family to ensure that our customers get the beef they need.
Beef bones are used for further processing into beef bone chips. These beef bone chips are supplied to gelatin manufacterers for extraction of collagen/gelatin from the bones. During the process at the human grade beef bone processing plant there is also a soluble protein derived. This product is partially defatted and then spray dried into a powder. The final powder is high in protein (> 70%), low in ash and very palatable.
EU certified
As confirmed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), all of IQI's imported animal proteins from Europe which comply with EU Regulation 1069/2009, once further processed into petfood in the U.S. are eligible for export from the U.S. to the EU.
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