Safety & Ingredients

Is your raw food safe?

Stella & Chewy’s has a unique food safety procedure to ensure the safety of our raw products. The most powerful step in this procedure is our high-pressure processing (HPP) step—this is a cold-water pressure process that effectively eliminates harmful bacteria from the food. We use this process on all our raw products, regardless of the protein. As food-borne bacteria can be present in any type of meat, we feel that incurring the extra cost of HPP for all our products is the responsible thing to do. This way, pet parents can rest assured that they are always bringing a safe food into their home. Additionally, HPP is the only reliable method for maintaining the wonderful raw nutrition of our products while still removing harmful pathogens. We then send all batches to be tested for pathogenic bacteria – nothing leaves our facility without negative test results in hand. We also post these test results on our website. We are highly committed to creating the most nutritious, safe, and delicious product on the market.

 

Do you use humane ingredients?

Stella & Chewy’s is committed to using safe ingredients that meet our highest standards. We are most focused on delivering safe, best-in-class nutrition that will allow all pets to thrive. All of our ingredients come from suppliers we know, and trust and all our meats come from USDA inspected facilities (or similar inspection agencies outside the United States) that do not allow floor waste, sick or euthanized animals. The animal proteins we use are responsibly sourced.  Our suppliers adhere to humane handling practices.

 

What preservatives do you use?

We never use any artificial preservatives in our food. We use mixed tocopherols (a natural, vitamin E-based preservative) in our products, but the main method of preservation is freezing, freeze-drying, or baking!

 

What are natural flavors?

The natural flavors we use are essentially like bouillon – it is concentrated, dry broth that is added to enhance the flavors. We list the specific source of flavor (i.e. vegetable flavor, etc.) on the ingredient panel to reduce confusion.

 

Are your products GMO-free?

We cannot guarantee that our products are GMO-free at this time, nor do we use organic meats – we do ensure that they are free of antibiotics and added hormones, though. Our fruits and veggies are completely organic. Additionally, if you are concerned with GMOs, you may want to consider our fish-based products. All the fish are wild-caught.

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