What Makes Us Different?
Allen & Page’s mill in Norfolk may well be state of the art, but our company’s values and guiding principles are much more traditional. Our innovative, family-owned company has four generations of experience and we use only natural ingredients of the highest quality in our horse feeds, with no artificial or ‘nature identical’* flavours. As you would expect, the mill is entirely drug free.
As a reflection of this fundamental policy, we take proactive steps to ensure that the soya and maize used in our feeds are all grown from non-GM seed. Although these crops cannot be guaranteed, we take every reasonable precaution to ensure that you and your horse have minimal exposure to any possible GM presence.
When we talk about using natural ingredients of the highest quality in our feeds, what does this really mean?
Firstly, we never use anything that might be originally animal based. We insist on only ever using premium-grade vegetable oils and we don’t use fish meal. We also steer clear of gelatine coating for our vitamins – a pork by-product which is commonly used for this purpose. Secondly, we don’t use questionable waste products from the human food industry, like biscuit meal.
It goes without saying that all our herbs are actually real herbs and not flavourings. In addition, none of our ingredients (most notably soya) have been extracted using the harsh chemical solvent hexane, a method that is widespread. But don’t just take our word for it.
All our feeds are approved by the Vegetarian Society, which only endorses products that are free from animal constituents and are formulated without genetically modified ingredients.
As further confirmation of the highest standards of our production processes, our mill is quality assured and has attained ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 environmental accreditation, as well as being UKASTA Assured and Soil Association Licensed.
The Allen and Page Guarantee…
We guarantee that there are no prohibited substances under the current Jockey Club or F.E.I. rules have been used in the production of any of our feeds. By maintaining this policy we can confirm that all reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that no prohibited substances are introduced in the production of these feeds.
