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Marshfield, MA: Kwik Trip has contracted with the Marshfield Clinic's food safety division to monitor both the preparation and delivery of its line of products that are made fresh daily at the new Kwik Trip commissary facility near La Crosse, WI. This will include new products such as its Kitchen Cravings products, according to Jay Ellingson, director of Kwik Trip's food safety division.

"Since we make a lot of our own products and are expanding our product lines, we thought it was in our company's best interest to partner with a health facility that is known for its strong emphasis in public health," Ellingson notes. "The company is growing in the food area and we want to do it right. We are making some great quality products with good value -- homemade soups and take-home meals.

"These are truly ma and pa-type meals with nutritional labels. The clinic's lab will do the nutritional analysis and the microbial monitoring. We want the taste and nutritional values to be there," he adds.

Besides federal- and state-mandated regulations, the clinic's facility will provide other testing that is not necessarily mandated, but which helps to ensure the quality and safety of the company’s products.