The Pet Food Manufacturing Facility Certification Program (PFMFCP) and the Pet Food Ingredient Facility Certification Program (PFIFCP) were developed by AFIA’s pet food and quality committees with input from third-party food safety experts. These two programs build upon AFIA’s domestic Safe Feed/Safe Food program, and are designed to monitor the process controls specifically related to the manufacturing of pet food. “AFIA sees this as a model program for the entire pet food industry,” according to Joel G. Newman, AFIA’s president and CEO. “I commend the pet food committee for developing this program to help ‘raise the bar’ for their own industry.”