Production Log for Peak Power Dog Liver Treats Wednesday February 28 2018

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We make available to the public the supply chain, inventory and production details about our products. This post contains information from a specific product production run. More information about our product production logs is here.

Inventory and Production Notes

This is the production log for Peak Power Dog Beef Liver produced on this date. Notes are as follows:

Lot code: 2/28/18; Expiration: 12/25/19
Defrosted 4 days before in LOD kitchen fridge.
Environment: humidity less than 22% and 66% degrees max.
24-hours cook time.
Allowed to cool on trays a few hours after cooking.
Put in plastic container in fridge and packaged on 3/4/18 and transferred to freezer storage.

Ingredient Inputs

Beef Liver

From Farm2Table Meats as whole cow liver.
Meat was originally processed in December 2017/January 2018 time frame by Jensen's Blue Ribbon Processing.
Picked up on January 25 2018 from Farm2Table in Sedalia, which came direct from the processor.
Transported to and remained in freezers at The Light of Dog Farm.

Packaging Inputs

32-ounce glass jars from Fillmore Container purchased January 24 2018.
3.5 ounce biodegradeable packs from Tekpak Solutions purchased February 13 2015.
32-ounce jar labels from Buckley Graphics purchased March 27, 2017.
3.5 ounce pack labels from Buckley Graphics purchased March 27, 2017.
Additional labels in various sizes: .5 x 1.75 – Avery brand from Amazon; 2×2 – Avery brand from Amazon; 1-inch round from Buckley Graphics purchased March 27 2017.
Labels are not biodegradeable and ink is not plant-based; we hope to move to biodegradeable labels in 2018.

Equipment Inputs

Logistics: we use gas-powered vehicles for pick up of ingredients.
The Light of Dog Kitchen, freezers, refrigerators, mixing and holding containers, grinder, utensils, dehydrator, weight scale: please see this post on Dog Food Production and Processing Equipment at The Light of Dog Farm.

Resource Inputs/Outputs

Water: no additional water is added to the product; we are on well-water and are chlorine and fluoride free. Click here for most recent well water test.
Electricity: supplied by IREA. We are not yet on solar/wind.
Recycling: we separate trash items for recycling.
Ingredient waste: we feed any ingredient waste or excess to our chickens or it gets composted and used in our farming.