Re: [rawfeeding] USDA number for Green Tripe?

On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Y. Madeline Moon wrote:

>
> Have any of you successfully been able to purchase green tripe from
> USDA slaughterhouses? Other offal? Do you have an assigned USDA
> number that I could get? We want the Oahu inspector to be able to
> look it up and know that he or she is just being particular and
> designing his/her own rules, but that slaughterhouses can legally
> sell green tripe and offal for pet consumption.

My understanding is that they cannot handle the stuff in the same
plant as meat for human consumption. You could ask Mary at Greentripe
how her suppliers do it; it comes in cardboard cases on pallets,
labeled with which organ or part of the stomach the boxes contain. I
believe it says "not for human consumption" on each case. Then Mary's
crew dumps them out, grinds everything, and mixes the blends. Of
course the final product is also labeled that way, too.

ginny and Tomo

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