Animal food kibble with electrostatically adhered dusting

A method of providing an animal food having an active ingredient, comprising:

• providing a nutritionally balanced animal food comprising an active ingredient, wherein the animal food is a kibble comprising a core and a dusting on the core, the dusting comprising the active ingredient and wherein the dusting contains less than 5 parts per million of the dusting of a binding agent, and the kibble comprises from 25% to 75% by weight of the dusting, and wherein the dusting adheres to the core through electrostatic adhesion;
• providing a package having a permeability of no more than 10−5 grams/day/cm2/mmHg;
• packing the animal food into the package;
• wherein the animal food has a water activity of less than 0.3 when packed;
• wherein the package is formed from a plastic laminate selected from the group consisting of ethylene-derived polymers, polypropylene, polyester, teraphthalates, polyolefins, homopolymer and/or co-polymer polyolefins, woven polypropylene, and mixtures and combinations thereof, and is effective at maintaining the activity of the active ingredient to no less than 90% of the initial activity level after 6 months of packing.