Co-owner Morasch is particularly proud of the quality of ingredients used for the company’s pet food products. Even though we are making pet food, we are required to use all USDA-inspected and passed ingredients.”Īll Northwest Naturals products are made in house from beginning to end in the same facilities that produce products for Morasch Meats.
Federal meat inspectors are onsite at both plants every day on every shift to verify our food safety programs. “All ingredients are inspected and must pass USDA guidelines by our onsite USDA inspectors. “Northwest Naturals is made in an active USDA human food facility,” Snell explained. Stringent USDA food safety guidelines apply equally to the company’s human food and pet food manufacturing processes. HPCP is just one piece of Northwest Naturals’ food safety program. It inactivates harmful microorganisms at low temperatures, while valuable nutritional components such as proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and enzymes remain unaffected.” “ is also attractive for consumers because it meets the demand for safe raw pet food products through non-thermal processing. “HPCP is an important part of Northwest Naturals’ food safety program and ensuring the safety of our products,” Snell said.
In-house high pressure processing systems inactivate harmful microorganisms at low temperatures but retain the valuable nutritional components of the products. For both raw frozen and freeze-dried formulations, recipes are first blended, then bulk packaged for HPCP, and afterward formed and individually quick frozen (IQF) to preserve product integrity. Northwest Naturals uses the acronym HPCP because they use chilled water in their high-pressure, cold processing machines. “We basically got into the first batch of HPP work and realized that we had something that preserved the food values and at the same time gave a very clean product to the consumer that met all of the needs,” Morasch said. Pressure Safe currently has two HPP systems, an Avure -QFP 100L and an Avure AV-X. The company doesn’t currently provide HPP services for other companies because they are too busy with their own products. In 2009, the Morasch brothers learned about high pressure processing (HPP) and, after some research and a trip by their father to Sweden to learn more about the HPP process, they purchased their first Avure 100-litre HPP machine and set up a subsidiary company called Pressure Safe that is part of the JBT/Avure tolling network in the Pacific Northwest.
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The company also manufactures a full line of freeze-dried pet foods and single-ingredient treats. Today, Northwest Naturals manufactures raw frozen pet diets for both dogs and cats, as well as raw frozen beef bones and chicken, duck and turkey necks. Northwest Naturals believes a raw food diet offers the right nutrition and delivers that nutrition in a more beneficial way. “I thought it was wise and we were going to do it in a quality way, so I said, ‘Yes, let’s get involved and figure it out.’”Īfter being one of the first USDA meat manufacturing facilities to produce raw frozen pet food under the same stringent USDA guidelines set for human food, Northwest Naturals has continued to embrace other innovations in the pet food space that include food safety technologies, freeze-drying, sustainability initiatives and solar energy. “When Mike asked me if we should try and help this customer develop a human-grade raw pet food, I told him that I believed in diversification,” Morasch said.
Prior to adding freeze drying capabilities in 2012, Northwest Naturals provided dicing and other meat handling services for years to a freeze-dried pet food manufacturing company.
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