Laboratories and Food safety of Natural Balance Food
Natural Balance Food is manufactured and tested in laboratories which contain high end equipments like Mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, spectrophotometric testing and gas chromatography which used Nitrogen Phosphorus Detector. The organization also utilises the services of Midwest Laboratories which is located in Omaha, Nebraska. The Midwest laboratory is basically used for testing agricultural soil analysis, the tissues of the plant, analysis of pesticide, water and analysis of food at microbiological level, fertilizers, petroleum, nematodes, hazardous waste etc. Natural Balance Food laboratories utilise the ELISA (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) testing system for Melamine, Ochratoxin, Cyanuric acids, Don Vomitoxin, Aflatoxin, and Zearalone etc.
The organization hired new personnel after recalling Venison products in 2007 which would take care of food safety in respect to the pet food. Dr. Ali Haghighi was the new hired personnel responsible for pet food safety. The testing procedures had protocols in place which would check for melamine and cyanuric acid in the pet food.
The Natural Balance Food testing protocol utilised regular research & development and this also incorporated quality control at the testing stage. Due to this protocol, the accuracy of the tests increased which in turn earned third party validations like AOAC International, Food Safety and Inspection Service and so on. The organization also provides email notifications regarding the latest news in respect to the pet industry which could affect the pets. It is the first organization to offer such a service to their customers. They top the charts by offering another service like database test results on various chemicals through their website.