Herein lies the problem Robin. I agree with much of what you have said so far. The manufacturing of ANY food, human or pet is very serious business. One mistake and thousands of people or pets are affected by it and sometimes the consequences are dire. I had a friend die from Botulism and it was an extremely painful way for her to go. This is why I work for the company I do. They do all of their own manufacturing. Nutro owns and operates all of their own plants. They can trace every single ingredient in all of the food back to the original supplier. The plants are inspected constantly and each batch is put through 600 tests before it hits the shelves. Nutro is willing to be accountable for it's products. There are a few others that make their own food as well but most farm out the manufacturing to 3rd parties and I don't know how much control there is when it comes to ingredients, canning, testing etc. I would think very little. One very well known, and very popular brand which is discussed here often has 6 different manufacturers. 6 !!!
That does not exclude them from problems, which is how they were still involved in the Melamine Recall in 2007.
