Summit Hill Flavors

Immediate News Release:
USDA Approves Real Meat, Poultry and Vegetable Savory Flavors for “Natural” Products

MIDDLESEX, NJ - Summit Hill Flavors, Middlesex, N.J. announces the USDA/FSIS has approved their MinPro® line of real Savory Flavors for use in USDA Inspected Meat and Poultry Products making the “Natural” claim. MinPro® Natural Flavors are “minimally processed” and are made from hormone free and antibiotic free “natural” chicken, turkey, ham, bacon and beef raw materials.  The flavors provide a “clean label” with no added flavor enhancers or artificial ingredients. Flavors are available both for dry and liquid applications and can be used in meat & poultry marinade & basting solutions, soups, broths, gravies, sauces, breading & coatings, pasta, side dishes, food bases, flavor systems, topical coatings & seasonings, and main dishes.

MIDDLESEX, NJ - OCT 1 2007 -- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has determined that all flavor manufacturers using real meat and poultry in their process operations now come under sole jurisdiction of USDA-FSIS.

Summit Hill® Flavors uses real meat and poultry in the manufacture of its “natural, clean-label” meat and poultry flavors, and we are now obligated to produce those flavors under USDA-FSIS inspection.  In addition, the labeling of all Summit Hill® meat and poultry flavors will be determined solely by USDA-FSIS.