SC Pet Food Solutions located in Saluda County South Carolina was fined $20,000 for polluting area streams.
From Yahoo News: “A large creek downstream of the pet food plant – Mine Creek – was coated with pea green slime and carried an odor that neighbors said was nauseating. Before the scum formed, the water turned black, residents said.”
Image source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/stinky-dark-discharges-drained-pet-110000296.html
“The Pet Food Solutions plant, in the small Saluda County community of Ward, is a large factory that processes byproducts from poultry processing plants into protein food for pet food..”
From Google Earth, below is the plant ingredient for pet food (SC Pet Food Solutions):
And a close-up photo above – where the raw materials appear to be dumped on the ground (soon to be chicken feed):
This poultry meal/chicken meal plant raw meat material is dumped on the ground, and there is raw meat material sitting in open unrefrigerated trailers. (This is NOT acceptable in any human food product or human grade pet food.)
The hypocrisy.
This company was fined for polluting the environment, but because state and federal regulatory agencies allow it – it is acceptable for the source of the environmental pollution (raw pet food ingredients) to be dumped on the ground , exposed to weather/pests/contaminants, rot…and then processed into pet foods.
What is not allowed to be released into the environment IS allowed to be released into pet food – without warning or disclosure to pet food consumers.
Pet Owners deserve to know what they are buying. In July 2022, we submitted a Citizen Petition to the FDA proving why federal law supports the disclosure of illegal waste ingredients that have not been processed or handled in accordance with food safety (feed grade) requirements on labels of pet food. Almost 2 years later, the FDA has not responded.
Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
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