About Us



LabDiet^®’s heritage of providing small animal nutritional excellence and research has set the industry standards for over 100 years. Since 1917, when PMI^® established its first experimental laboratory, LabDiet^® formulas have set the industry standard for nutrition in animal diet research and development. Our first LabDiet^® product was introduced in 1942 along with our Constant Nutrition^® philosophy. The fundamental principle of Constant Nutrition^® in our LabDiet^® products remains uniform…as it’s been since our introduction to the research community.

RESEARCH

At PMI^®, our nutritionists and research analysts process more than 85,000 samples and complete more than 250,000 assays each year at PMI^® facilities in St. Louis and at the PMI^® Research Center near Gray Summit, Missouri. The PMI^® research team retains our reputation by making sure every product has been properly formulated and researched for performance in collaborative studies and in our own laboratories…long before you buy it.

MANUFACTURING

The quality of LabDiet^® products is unmatched. We set the standard in November 1996 when our production facility in Richmond, Indiana became the first ISO 9002 Certified production facility in the USA. As a continued commitment to the laboratory animal business, the PMI^® Richmond facilities have taken the lead in the Laboratory Animal Diet industry to become the first U.S. animal feed manufacturing plant to become ISO 9001:2000. Antibiotics and synthetic estrogens are STRICTLY PROHIBITED in the LabDiet^® plant.

PMI^® maintains tight controls throughout the manufacturing process on all LabDiet^® products. We carefully and thoroughly screen every supplier before adding them to our authorized supplier list. Then we monitor their performance to ensure that our quality standards are maintained. All ingredient protocols are part of ISO 9001:2000 Certification documentation. All suppliers and shipments are carefully monitored. Each shipment is inspected for possible contaminants, and the protein and fiber content of key ingredients are analyzed and other tests verify individual ingredients.

CONSTANT NUTRITION^®

CONSTANT NUTRITION^® is a concept in diet formulation exclusive to LabDiet^® of delivering a constant level of nutrients: (amino acids, lipids, fiber, minerals, vitamins and carbohydrates) while taking into account the biological variation of natural feedstuffs. This is achieved by assaying the ingredients daily and making necessary formulation refinements to assure a constant level of nutrient delivery. The actual set of ingredients used in a diet does not change.

The benefit is a constant baseline of nutrition to help the scientific community control nutritionally induced variables. In addition the constant set of ingredients is assayed for interfering environmental contaminants to further reduce the possibility of unwanted variables introduced through the diet. An unwanted variable may lead to confounding of experimental results.

CONSTANT NUTRITION^® removes uncertainty and assures control, predictability and maintenance of baseline data in your experimentation.

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