IQI Trusted Petfood Ingredients

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IQI Trusted Petfood Ingredients is a global provider of premium-claim ingredients to the top brands in the pet food industry. We work in close partnership with our customers and suppliers worldwide, matching supply and demand. Our dedicated experts help to apply pet food ingredients in the most efficient and effective way, using co-creation for product optimization and innovation. For IQI, quality and trust are the keys to success. That’s why we invest a great deal in creating full supply-chain transparency to guarantee quality, origin, or sustainability claims for our diverse portfolio of pure, clean, and high-quality ingredients. IQI oversees and controls every step in the process from source to shelf, ensuring on-time delivery and year-round availability of seasonal products.

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IQI Trusted Petfood Ingredients joins global food supplier OSI Group

The Dutch ingredient supplier aims to reach new customers and broaden its product portfolio.

Ingredients • 3 Nov 2023

Betty McPhee joins IQI as VP of Sales for North America

As of July 1st, the specialty ingredient supplier has a new head of sales.

News • 18 Jul 2021

Seaweeds as a rich source

IQI (The Netherlands)

1 Jun 2021

Microalgae for pet food

IQI (The Netherlands)

20 Apr 2021

Fish or flax?

Is it fair to claim omega-3 on your label when ALA-rich flaxseed oil is the real ingredient? Or is fish oil, rich in EPA and DHA the only way to go?

Ingredients • 29 Mar 2019

How to win the hearts of millennial consumers?

The millennial target group is too big and provides too many opportunities to ignore, but it presents us with a challenge.

Trends & Insights • 3 Oct 2018

Transparency: the all-important ingredient

Blockchain is about to change the pet food industry for the better, as it makes 100% transparency the norm.

Global Pet Industry • 28 Aug 2018

Bursting with natural proteins

Hydrolysis is a widely used and abused term in the pet food industry but done right it can deliver a new source of powerful proteins.

Ingredients • 3 Apr 2018

A great catch

A well-balanced diet is essential for healthy living. That goes for humans as well as pets. Good food provides the body with all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals required to function optimally and prevents a wide range of serious health problems. For good reason, functional foods and supplement-enriched products have become an inextricable part of our everyday menu. And now pets get to taste the same benefits.

Ingredients • 14 Feb 2018

Trust is good, control is better

As we all know, delivering quality starts at the source. To produce the best results, excellent ground materials are essential, but that is just the start. It is what happens next in the production and transport process that determines the quality of the end product.

Trends & Insights • 13 Oct 2017

Pet health is a gut feeling

While pet humanization is not exactly a new trend, the belief that pets are full-fledged family members continues to grow. Today more than ever pet owners pay close attention to what ends up in their companion’s bowls.

Pet Care • 31 May 2017

Insight is the answer

Public inquiry

The best business is honest business. It is that simple.

13 Apr 2017

The origin of quality

The way it was

In the 50’s and 60’s feed mills produced petfood as a side stream, mixing animal proteins with regionally sourced ground materials. Businesswise it was a clever idea to work with nutrient suppliers closest to the factory. Also quality control was relatively easy this way. But with little to no variation in their menu, certain animals developed allergic reactions. This led to the introduction of lamb meal, an ‘exotic’ meat component free of allergens.

1 Sep 2016