FROMM'S QUALITY PLEDGE:
Fromm Family Foods is dedicated to assuring unprecedented quality and safety in all its pet food products. The Fromm Family has over a 100 year history in animal nutrition and promises to continue to deliver the finest in dry, canned and treat products for pets.
Recently, another ingredient has been identified in the recall related to tainted pet food. Fromm Family Foods does not currently use rice protein in any of its foods, and hasn't done so for over a year and half. If you happen to see an old bag on a store shelf that actually contains rice gluten meal, it is over a year old and past the best before date printed on the bag. Be assured that even if this product is fed past its best before date, the product is perfectly safe as the rice protein used was purchased from a company in Holland. The Holland company's plant from whom we purchsed Rice Gluten Meal has an FDA number and produces only products for human consumption such as starch derived sweeteners like glucose and rice syrup. Whereas, the contaminated rice concentrate shipped to other pet food manufacturers was fro careless "rogue" ingredient blenders who unfortunately were not thoroughly evaluated by the pet food trade prior to its use in other pet food products. Although we no longer use Rice Gluten Meal in any of our products, our Four-Star Duck A la Veg and Gold Cat foods still have rice gluten meal printed in the ingredient panels as we are still running out existing empty bag inventories.
With the recent number of pet food recalls, many pet owners have become painfully aware that many of their trusted brands are made by less than a handful of third party private label manufacturers. Unlike many other pet food companies that have all their products made for them by third party manufacturers, all of our Fromm Dry Pet Foods and Treats are manufactured at our plant located in Wisconsin.
Regarding their "grain-free" canned foods, all of their products are processed in a fit only for human consumption plant, and only the highest manufacturing standards are used to produce their products. All of their canned products have FDA registration numbers and certificates of manufacturing integrity are provided for each and every load before it is allowed to enter the USA or Canada. Each facility has been rigorously inspected on site by the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency). As per these certifications by the FDA and CFIA, they are mandated to purchase their ingredients from only certified suppliers according to government directives. There are government inspectors on site during production, and these facilities supply canned goods world wide including the USA. These facilities also have EU (European Unions) and Kosher Certifications.
They do not use wheat gluten, rice gluten or rice protein concentrates in any of their products, including their canned foods. Wheat gluten is frequently used by other companies in their canned pet food to make a manufactured meat substitute product that can be made to look like chunks and slices or dices of real meat from lower quality meats or inedible (not fit for human consumption) meat by-products. If you see a rubbery chunk of meat in any canned pet food it is likely to be a piece of reformed meat made with wheat guten. Rest assured, when you open one of their cans, you will only see real cuts of whole meat and vegetables. There is no mystery meat and you will not see anything in the can you do not recognize as real whole food. While many people are understandably concerned with products from China, Fromm feels that it is important to assure their customers that their products are made and certified to stric government edible food standards.
Their products are technology based and carefully designed with an unprecedented visual presentation that allows our customers the security to see exactly what they are feeding their four-legged family member.
Fromm feels it is most important to think through a purchase decision based on the product's qualtiy. Fromm can with 100% certainty say that their canned foods are inspected and certified to be 100% edible; 100% natural, and not affiliated with any by-product operation.
FROMM STANDS BY THEIR PRODUCTS 100%!
