Amy's Kitchen...an awesome company !!

I have emailed several companies to ask about their ingredient sources and purity. I was concerned about milk and cheese ingredients. This is the reply I received from Amy's. I love this company. Their food is awesome and they are supporting Proposition 37 in California. If California gets GMO labeling, so will the rest of the US and Canada. I went shopping yesterday and picked up some Amy's Kitchen.

Amy's Kitchen has very strict requirements for their cheeses.  The milk must come from cows that have not been treated with rBST. The cheese must be made without any animal rennet or rennet derived from genetic engineering.  It must taste great and melt to perfection when heated.  And, as a more practical consideration, the cheese cannot be so expensive that it would make Amy's Kitchen's products unaffordable for our customers.

In our first few years of production, we could not find good quality organic cheeses that met these requirements.  Over the years, more suppliers have made organic cheeses that meet our composition and flavor requirements and the costs of organic cheeses have come down as well.  Because of this, we are now able to incorporate more organic cheeses into our products.  The Cheese Lasagna, Cheese Enchiladas, Burrito Especial and Mushroom Olive Pizza now contain some organic cheese. 

Our Quality Assurance Department has very strict requirements for each and every shipment of cheese.  Our staff has visited the cheese plants of each and every supplier to assure they have systems in place to avoid any contamination with unacceptable chemicals or compounds.  In addition, we have sent our cheeses out for pesticide testing; all results have been ND (non-detectable).  So even though our products may contain a mix of both organic and conventional cheese, you should feel comfortable that all our cheeses, conventional and organic, meet a very high standard for quality in the industry.

You might also be interested to know that all our fresh milk and cream are now organic.  These are easier ingredients to find in the quantities and at the quality level we require so we have been able to convert existing products and develop new products with these ingredients.