Welcome to Food Fur Life, where feeding homemade pet food is EZ!
***Please see important safety information regarding Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu, below***
At Food Fur Life, we believe in simple. Our premixes are designed to make it as easy as possible to feed your pet a homemade complete and balanced food based on the prey model. With no fillers, no thickeners, no flow agents, no preservatives, no added coloring - in fact, no unnecessary additives of any kind, EZComplete Premixes are designed to nourish your pet the way nature intended.
Buy boneless meat, add water and EZComplete. That's it, you're done! ...Unless you want to cook the meat first. EZComplete premixes can be used with raw OR cooked meat, each option makes balanced and complete food as per AAFCO nutrient guidelines for All Life Stages.
Produced in the U.S.A., EZComplete is made with only human grade quality ingredients that are tested - each batch - for avian flu. Food Fur Life’s manufacturer specializes in human vitamins and nutritional food supplements; is a member of the Natural Products Association, and is a next generation cGMP and NSF certified manufacturing facility. This means EZComplete is manufactured in an FDA registered and inspected facility, following the same standards you expect from high quality supplements you purchase for yourself.
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STATEMENT REGARDING AVIAN FLU
The recent announcements of cat deaths in wild cat sanctuaries and several domestic, indoor-only (though apparently outside supervised) cats due to avian flu understandably has caused a scare within the raw feeding community. Though these heart-breaking tragedies have primarily been from feeding raw milk, there are cat deaths directly linked to raw food. There is much we don't yet know. Further, we are unlikely to have any real data regarding infection rates, susceptibility, mortality data, etc as there is no monitoring system in place. For most cats, the flu may simply be like any flu, an upper respiratory virus. There are clearly cats that become ill with the URI and get better, some in the same home as cats that passed. Those that have passed had neurological symptoms. What causes this / causes such a difference in symptoms and outcomes remains unknown at this time. We do know there appears to be liver involvement in this form of bird flu, though what role that has in illness or outcomes, we have no information nor data.
What we do know is that the poultry products in EZComplete are safe:
- The EZComplete premix contains what was liquid egg yolk, which by law is required to be pasteurized (at least in the human grade market, we can't speak to pet grade products). The required heat pasteurization renders the highly pathogenic avian flu unable to cause infection.
- Food Fur Life has replaced eggshell with calcium carbonate in the EZComplete fur Cats 450g bags. This was done in 2023. The 225g bags and the EZComplete fur Dogs products are being switched to calcium carbonate at the current inventory fulfillment.
- EZComplete contains spray-dried chicken liver. Specifications have been confirmed to be the method using 150C (302F) on intake and 100C (212F) at the outlet. This is more than sufficient for safety purposes of all known pathogens, including HPAI.
OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, FOOD FUR LIFE RECOMMENDS COOKING ALL POULTRY. The EZComplete premix is designed to balance cooked (boneless) meat as well as raw (boneless) meat. Cooking meat to 165F (79.9C) kills the avian flu virus according to the FDA. If you opt to cook poultry used to make food with EZComplete, please follow the instructions for how to properly make the food with cooked meats. This information is on the bags and in the How To sections for Cats and Dogs here, on the website:
How to Prepare EZComplete fur Cats
How to Prepare EZComplete fur Dogs
What we do know is that the poultry products in EZComplete are safe:
- The EZComplete premix contains what was liquid egg yolk, which by law is required to be pasteurized (at least in the human grade market, we can't speak to pet grade products). The required heat pasteurization renders the highly pathogenic avian flu unable to cause infection.
- Food Fur Life has replaced eggshell with calcium carbonate in the EZComplete fur Cats 450g bags. This was done in 2023. The 225g bags and the EZComplete fur Dogs products are being switched to calcium carbonate at the current inventory fulfillment.
- EZComplete contains spray-dried chicken liver. Specifications have been confirmed to be the method using 150C (302F) on intake and 100C (212F) at the outlet. This is more than sufficient for safety purposes of all known pathogens, including HPAI.
OUT OF AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, FOOD FUR LIFE RECOMMENDS COOKING ALL POULTRY. The EZComplete premix is designed to balance cooked (boneless) meat as well as raw (boneless) meat. Cooking meat to 165F (79.9C) kills the avian flu virus according to the FDA. If you opt to cook poultry used to make food with EZComplete, please follow the instructions for how to properly make the food with cooked meats. This information is on the bags and in the How To sections for Cats and Dogs here, on the website:
How to Prepare EZComplete fur Cats
How to Prepare EZComplete fur Dogs