Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Products per se – or processes of preparing or treating... – Animal derived material is an ingredient other than extract...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-02-26
2001-08-21
Sayala, Chhaya D. (Department: 1761)
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Products per se, or processes of preparing or treating...
Animal derived material is an ingredient other than extract...
C426S658000, C426S807000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06277435
ABSTRACT:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
Not applicable
BACKGROUND—Field of Invention
This invention relates to pet food, specifically domesticated cats and dogs for which a kosher diet is recommended for health and/or spiritual reasons.
BACKGROUND—Description of Prior Art
Dog and cat foods are generally formulated from a combination of proteinaceous and farinaceous materials. The proteinaceous material is derived from either vegetable protein sources or from meat and/or meat by-product sources, and nutritional supplements are often added. The farinaceous material is derived from grain products and contains starch as a major component.
Generally, commercially available pet food is composed of the leftovers of the agriculture industry. Pet food provides a place for slaughterhouse waste and grains considered unfit for human consumption to be turned into profit. This waste includes esophagi and possibly diseased and cancerous meat.
The grains used have had the starch removed and the oil extracted—usually by chemical processing—for vegetable oil, or they are the hulls and other remnants from the milling process. Some of the truly whole grains used may have been deemed unfit for human consumption because of mold, contaminants, or poor storage practices.
The flesh of animals who fall into one of the categories of the four D's—dead, dying, diseased, or disabled—is what often goes into pet food. Many of these animals have died of infections, dehydration, or exposure to extreme heat or cold. In all but a few states, it is legal to remove unusable parts from chickens and sell them to pet food manufacturers. For example, some cheap or generic kibble-type dog food contains ground-up feathers. In the chicken inspection lines, deformed or tumorous legs are often cut off and put in a separate area for nonhuman consumption. Another source of meat not mentioned on conventional pet food labels are dogs and cats. In 1990 the San Francisco Chronicle reported that euthanized companion animals were being used in pet food. Although pet food manufacturers vehemently denied the report, the American Veterinary Medical Association confirmed the Chronicle's story.
Some veterinarians claim that feeding slaughterhouse wastes to animals increases their risk of getting cancer and other degenerative diseases. Commercially manufactured or rendered meat meals are highly contaminated with bacteria because their source is not always slaughtered animals. Animals that have died because of disease, injury, or natural causes are a source of meat for meat meal. The dead animal may not be rendered or cooked until days after its death. Therefore the carcass is often contaminated with bacteria—Salmonella bacteria contaminate 25-50% of meat meals. While the cooking process may kill bacteria, it does not eliminate the endotoxins that result from the bacteria. These toxins can cause disease.
While the AAFCO (American Association of Feed Control) established guidelines pertaining to the nutritional composition of pet food, it does not establish guidelines pertaining to the provenance of the ingredients.
Several types of pet foods have been proposed—for example, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,695,797 (1997) and 5,968,569 (1999) to Nestec S. A.; U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,055,681 (1977), 4,228,195 (1980) 4,524,081 (1985) and 4,895,731 (1990) to The Quaker Oats Company; U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,190,679 (1980), 4,495,208 (1985) to General Foods Corporation; U.S. Pat. No. 4,310,558 (1982) to Ralston Purina Company; U.S. Pat. No. 4,784,860 (1988) to Novo Industri A/S; U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,910,038 (1990) and 5,045,339 (1991) to Huntington Hyde Ltd., Ind.; U.S. Pat. No. 5,294,458 (1994) to Maruha Corporation; U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,431,927 (1995); 5,500,239 (1996) and Pat. No. 5,690,988 (1997) to Colgate Palmolive Company; U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,616,569 (1997) and 5,851,573 (1998) to The Iams Company; U.S. Pat. No. 5,894,029 (1999) to Purebreed Pet Product, Inc.
Although these patents claim higher nutrition or improved palatability of their pet food products, none mentions the source of ingredients as part of their manufacturing process.
All the pet foods heretofore known suffer from a number of disadvantages:
a) Their manufacture focuses on the palatability of the product with no regards to the nutritional content.
b) Products with high nutritional contents offer low palatability, leading to the pet eating less, therefore not getting the nutrients that the food product intends to deliver.
c) Products designed to alleviate a specific ailment in the pet, with no regards to the overall health of the animal or the product's palatability.
SUMMARY
In accordance with the present invention a highly palatable pet food formulated from a combination of proteinaceous and farinaceous ingredients certified kosher and manufactured following kosher guidelines.
Objects and Advantages
Accordingly, several objects and advantages of the present inventions are:
a) to provide a highly palatable pet food.
b) to provide a pet food which is highly nutritional for pets regardless of their ages, ailments, or levels of activity.
c) To provide a pet food that does not promote debilitating diseases: slaughtered meat must be kashered, a process that involves the use of COLD water (warm water being a breeding ground for bacteria) and an extensive salting and soaking process that lessen the risk of formation of nitrosamines, cancer-causing agents. Salting can also reduce or eliminate some types of bacteria, especially campylobacter, a common contaminant of poultry. It also appears to reduce the risk of salmonella in chicken.
d) To provide high quality meat-based pet food: animals for ail slaughter must be in good health. Diseased animals are automatically considered non-kosher. In order to ensure the wholesomeness of the meat, immediately after slaughter the animal's lungs and other internal organs are checked by a trained inspector for any physiological abnormalities or symptoms of diseases. Animals with certain types of adhesions, cuts, or bruises are entirely rejected. There are over 70 defects that render an animal unsuitable for consumption.
e) To provide a natural pet food: kosher poultry must be raised without hormones or growth stimulants.
Further objects and advantages are to provide a pet food which can be served daily, with noticeable improvements to the animal's health, yet can easily be mass manufactured at a reasonable cost once the initial koshering process is completed. Additionally, the product will be instantly embraced by people of Jewish faith who wish to keep a kosher home. Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the ensuing description and drawings.
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Lacombe Martine
Michels Marc
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