MAILBOX: DR. SPECTOR REVEALS INSIDE SCOOP ON PET FOOD INGREDIENTS
March 6th, 2009 by Dr. Donna SpectorDr. Spector Answers Readers’ Letters: Dr. Spector Reveals Inside Scoop on Pet Food
Q: I think the author has confused meat meal with meat by-product meal.
A: Sorry for any confusion.
By-products are the clean non-rendered parts other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals. It includes, but it not limited to lungs, spleen, kidneys, brain, blood, bone, fatty tissue and stomachs and intestines freed of their contents.
I had stated that meat meal is “by-products that are cooked, pressed, dried and added to food.” I can see why the terminology I used may seem a little confusing. I was just trying to give the average consumer some easy definitions of by-products and meals. Meat meal is the rendered “parts,” other than meat, derived from slaughtered mammals, whereas if meat meal is cooked and the meat fat is removed, the remaining material is extruded to form meat by-product meal.
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March 16th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I must apologize and thank our readers for pointing out two errors I made on the blog post of March 6, 2009. My definition of “meal” was indeed incorrect and it has been rectified in the posted article. I had intended to use the word “extracted” (as in the process of rendering) instead of “extruded” in the final sentence and this too has been corrected. You can find the entire post now at http://www.halopets.com/pet-education/pet-articles/pet_food_what_you_need_to_know.html
Dr. Donna Spector