Production of high quality food requires good manufacturing practise, and proper composed food.  Optimal and well-composed food is without question the most important part to secure optimal health of dogs and cats.  Cooperation with Lassén Feed Consult will ensure that your food is always optimally composed, both regarding nutrients and ingredients.

Lassén Feed Consult uses the feed optimization program AgroSoft WinOpti to compose and evaluate pet food recipes 

Food for small carnivorous or semicarnivorous animals, like cats and dogs, is made from by-products from the food industry and can be categorized into either protein, fat,- or carbohydrate (NFE) -based food ingredients. Each food ingredients has its own specific nutritional content. Taste and other characteristics may vary from food ingredient to food ingredient even if the food ingredient in question are nutritionally identical. Most food ingredient are used fresh or frozen, or heat treated and dried. The different ways of treatment greatly impact the nutritional content of the food ingredient. The food ingredient  in each food mixture must complement each other optimally and correspond to the nutritional needs of the animals in each specific period. Lassén Feed Consult has exhaustive data on most food ingredients used in pet food.

Use of low quality food ingredients will always result in unsatisfactory food mixtures that, as formerly mentioned, diminish the health of cats and dogs. Low quality not only refers to poor nutritional composition but also poor hygienic (microbiological) quality which results in the formation of many unwanted chemical substances, such as biogenic amines and volatile nitrogenous compounds. Food containing fungal toxins (mycotoxins) will always harm the animals health.

High-quality feed ingredients and food are obtained using risk management and self-monitoring programmes along with a specific analysis programme designed in accordance with the selected food ingredients and food mixtures. Lassén Feed consult is highly proficient at developing risk management plans, self-monitoring programmes in accordance with the HACCP-principles, analysis programmes and at evaluating test results.

Several rigorous studies have determined how various food ingredients influence the reproduction, the growth and the fur quality of the animals, which are good health parameters. These studies have determined the optimal composition of food ingredients in various feed mixtures to fur animals in the nordic countries. These results may be used to evaluate possibilities for the food ingredient to be used in food for cats and dogs. In Denmark, a number of nutrient digestibility studies on minks have determined how efficiently the animals utilize different raw materials. Furthermore, production studies are also common. In a production study, varying amounts of a food ingredient was included in different feed mixtures, which are then evaluated over a long period of time to determine how the food ingredient affects the well-being, the growth and the fur.

Lassén Feed Consult is always up to date on the most recent research and studies of pet food nutrition and veterinary studies ,