Responsibly sourced, properly handled raw food is completely safe! We only use the best quality ingredients and follow strict cGMPs to ensure that our food is safe for your pets! You should follow the same safety precautions handling raw pet food as is recommended for handling raw chicken you buy for yourself at the grocery store: Washing your “hands with soap and water for 20 seconds or and after handling food.” Running “cutting boards and utensils through the dishwasher or wash them in hot soapy water after each use.” Keeping “countertops clean by washing them with hot soapy water after preparing food.” Consumer reports show that over 60% of chicken breasts in your neighborhood grocery stores test positive for some sort of pathogen that has the capability to make a human sick.  This is the reason we need to cook our food, wash our hands, and take other precautions. But it is different for dogs and cats.  It is quite safe for dogs and cats to consume raw food. Which, when you think about it, makes sense since the ancestral diet for these animals obviously wasn’t cooked, processed, or “fortified.”  Dogs and cats have a very acidic stomach environment that prevents bacteria like salmonella and listeria from gestating. They also have very short digestive tracts that protect them from naturally occurring bacteria in raw food.  They don’t have long intestines like humans. Statistics based on several decades of end-user data show that it is more likely to encounter contaminants in commercial dry food than in raw food. Traditional commercial dry food has taken thousands of lives due to contamination with melamine, toxic molds, and excess of artificial, fat-soluble vitamins.  This is not the case with raw food.