We have never encountered any problems in our raw products, but poultry is the most susceptible protein to pathogens. So we gently cook our poultry in order to comply with the zero-tolerance pathogen FDA guidelines.
We cook the meat to 160 degrees in a convection oven, which destroys all pathogens but maintains high levels of nutrition. Other methods such as irradiation and high pressure pasteurization do not meet our high quality standards.
We do offer raw poultry recipes in our feline recipes because, while dogs have evolved to thrive on cooked foods, cats have not. For them, studies show, cooked food can be detrimental. But we test every batch of our turkey and chicken and will continue to do so.