G.A. Wintzer & Son Co. is a family-owned and operated rendering and recycling business whose operations date to 1848. Based in Wapakoneta, Ohio, it processes animal by-products and used cooking oil into ingredients for animal feed and other usable products. The company has continued under family ownership for more than 170 years.
AFIA Safe Food/Safe Feed Certification Program
Animal Proteins Producers Industry (APPI) Rendering Industry Code of Practice
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APPI Salmonella Testing Program
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Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) Plan
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EPA Title V Air Permit
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EPA NPDES Water Permit
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MOPACMOPAC is a Souderton, Pennsylvania company that collects and recycles used cooking oil and renders animal by-products into resources for other industries. Its roots trace to a family-operated meatpacking business founded in Souderton in 1877, and it says it has operated a regional rendering facility as part of its long history of repurposing waste. Now under the JBS umbrella, MOPAC serves food-service businesses across the Mid-Atlantic and reports recycling more than 50 million gallons of water annually.SOUDERTON, PA
Holmes By ProductsHolmes By Products is a family-owned rendering plant in Millersburg, Ohio, recycling material from food-processing plants, farms, restaurants, and butcher shops across Northeast and East-Central Ohio. The facility receives more than two million pounds of food waste each week and processes it into useful products, including high-protein feed supplements.MILLERSBURG, OH
Renewal Processing, IncRenewal Processing, Inc. is a family business that converts recycled food by-products into feed ingredients, with its origins in Pennsylvania agricultural work. John Sensenig began experimenting with bakery-waste processing in 1990, and by the end of 1991 was producing a dry bakery by-product for cattle feed; the business was founded as Sensenig Milling Services, Inc. in 1994 and later renamed Renewal Processing. The company presents its work as a way to keep food by-products out of landfills while supplying an alternative to grain for animal feed.WATSONTOWN, PA
Kah Meats & CoFor five generations, Kah Meats & Co. has butchered, processed, and sold meat for Wapakoneta-area families, carrying on a business the Kah family began in the 1890s and has operated since 1898. The family-owned, USDA-inspected plant offers custom processing alongside a retail counter featuring locally raised beef and pork, including in-house bratwurst and other prepared meats. Kah Meats moved to its current Wapakoneta location in 1977, where it continues its long-running hometown butcher-shop tradition.WAPAKONETA, OH