We are extremely luck here in the UK. The sale/preparation of ALL raw pet food is strictly controlled by DEFRA (Department of the Environment for something or other) (used to be MAFF - Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food). There are regular inspections of all plant where raw food is prepared, food has to be of human grade, labelled and sealed and frozen before sale. Special equipment has had to be installed to enable tests etc. for quality/bacteria etc. to be done on quality etc. of the meat being processed. One food preparation plant has had to move premises to enable the new equipment to be brought in. They have had to purchase new mincers etc. If they don't come up to scratch, they don't get a licence - or can have their licence revoked.
Where my meat comes from - it is delivered in temperature controlled vans (very useful when the temperatures are over 30 as has been lately here). In fact it arrives still frozen - and the vans are actually loaded the night before delivery.
