Painted Hills Natural Beef

News Release
April 19, 2007

Painted Hills Natural Beef Announces Release of Redeveloped German Brand Sausages: Now Nitrite and Nitrate Free

Fossil, Ore. - Painted Hills Natural Beef is pleased to announce the release of their newly redeveloped All-Natural German brand Sausages. Like the tremendously popular All-Natural Franks and Hotdogs, these new Germans are nitrite and nitrate free. After six months of reformulation, this popular product is now available to all retail partners.

Painted Hills Natural Beef will again be working with Hempler’s Foods in Ferndale , Washington to produce this new product. Recent advances in food technology are now allowing the company to pursue nitrite and nitrate free products while still retaining an appealing product color and great taste. This has proven to be a winning combination. “The Franks and Hotdogs have been so popular, we can barely keep them in stock,” said member-rancher and sales representative Joanne Keys. “The German Sausages are already being accepted with equal excitement and customer satisfaction.”

Consumers and retail partners can expect several changes in product specification with this change. The German brand Sausages will increase to four (4) dogs per pound and will come eight (8) packages per case. Shelf life is set at seventy (70) days. For more information, contact Jessica Bates, Projects Coordinator at jessica@natural-beef.com or toll-free at 1.877.306.8247.