August 14, 2024

Update to Our Food Safety Program: Pathogen Eliminating Probiotics

We are excited to share that we have added pathogen eliminating probiotics to our rigorous food safety program! Many of our customers have already received products with this addition and starting with orders placed today, all products will include these probiotics.

Why probiotics? Our probiotics are not the same as ones youā€™d buy at the store for yourself or your pets for gut health. Each strain in our mixture has been chosen specifically to perform a unique ā€œjobā€ in controlling or eliminating pathogens. Some produce natural antimicrobial compounds, others bind toĀ receptors on pathogens and inactivate them, and overall they outcompete and eliminate bad bacteria.

The role of probiotics in our overall safety approach: Weā€™ve conducted extensive research & testing with microbiologists & researchers to have confidence that this technology performs in our products and weā€™re thrilled to be making it available to all our customers.

This is just the latest addition to our robust, ever-evolving food safety program. We continue to source the highest quality USDA-inspected meat and the addition of probiotics is a complement to the antimicrobial lactic acid spray we already use on our raw ingredients. We manufacture in a USDA kitchen with strict cleaning & sanitation protocols, including regularly testing our production environment for pathogens and using ATP tests to monitor cleanliness.

Finally, each batch of our product is always tested for pathogens before shipping and multiple samples are collected from each batch to ensure we have a high statistical confidence in our results.

Here at Viva, we believe in making each batch of our food better than the last, which means weā€™re always looking at the latest research & discoveries to evolve our approach to food safety and provide higher quality products for your pets.Ā 

Want to learn more? Watch the videos below to learn more about how these probiotics work and to see how we worked with researchers to test this technology!

FAQ