Oh, right, regarding the "co-packing" bit and the use of NB's own machinery, actually, it got clarified by the Animal Nutrition department's Jennifer Freeman (dated April 3, 2007, which I believe was prior to official recall though I could be mistaken) as follows: "What this means, is that we use their machinery to manufacture our OWN products. We also have our OWN quality control over seeing any manufacturing/production of our products. Further, all of our products are tested prior to production, after production, and then once again at our facility before the product ever leaves for distribution." So they rent the machines, not just the space. |