Human Grade Pet Food From The Honest Kitchen Endures a Quality Control Process
to Ensure It Is 'Good Enough to Eat'
SAN DIEGO, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Honest Kitchen is a premium pet
food company that gives a different meaning to natural, holistic pet food
products. Even though every wholesome pet food product that comes off the
production line is intended to be consumed by a cat or dog, human beings
actually taste each batch of pet food and cookies during the company's pet
food QC process.
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Company executives also taste individual ingredients of the dehydrated raw
pet food mixture during the quality control and R & D Sessions. The canine
companions who join staff at their downtown San Diego office also love to
participate in the frequent dog food QC meetings -- this, their most favorite
of weekly tasks.
"Tasting our pet food is vitally important to us," commented Cami
Hawkinson, a member of the R & D Team. "We simply wouldn't feed our own
animals a product that we couldn't eat ourselves." Laurette Lamontagne, The
Honest Kitchen's Operations Manager added, "Tasting our diets allows us to
apply a fourth, fundamental sense to the pet food QC process."
The revelations about what goes on behind closed doors at The Honest
Kitchen's corporate center are not quite as shocking as they initially appear;
the company's products actually are guaranteed human edible pet food, and are
made in a plant right alongside foods and beverage mixes for consumption by
people. Manufacturing of the human grade pet food takes place under FDA
inspection and every ingredient must be stamped and approved for human
consumption in order to even enter the plant.
In 2004 The Honest Kitchen obtained a Statement of No Objection from the
federal FDA to use the term Human Grade pet food on its product labels -- a
first in the industry and a feat that is yet to be replicated by the company's
industry peers.
The Honest Kitchen became embroiled in a legal battle over the Human Grade
pet food issue in 2007 when state regulators with the department of
agriculture in Ohio refused to register the products with the 'human grade'
statement on the labels. The Honest Kitchen took them to court over the issue,
and won.
So how do human grade pet food products actually taste? "They're probably
a little bland by most humans' standards," states Lucy Postins the company's
founder and lead nutritionist. "But our canine and feline consumers absolutely
love the recipes -- and in comparison with what I'd imagine most regular and
natural pet food probably tastes like, they're really quite delicious!" she
continued.
The Honest Kitchen was founded in 2002 and produces a proprietary line of
dehydrated raw, human grade pet foods for dogs and cats.
For more information please contact Lucy Postins at
Lucy@thehonestkitchen.com or (619) 544 0018.
SOURCE The Honest Kitchen
Lucy Postins of The Honest Kitchen, +1-619-544-0018,
Lucy@thehonestkitchen.com
