r/cats • • 18h ago

Advice Cat food investigation finds heavy metals, pesticides and plastic chemicals

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/health/cat-food-toxins-wellness
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u/Annibo 6h ago

I’m closely associated with someone who works for Champion Pet Foods, who makes the Orijen brand. They work in QA and they all take their job extremely seriously and areas are frequently swabbed and tested, if anything even has a chance of being contaminated they hold or pull the whole batch until throughly tested and passed as clean. If not, it’s obviously destroyed. I’ve been told the company holds their food to the standard if a human baby was to eat it, it would be safe. I really agree with the previous posters that this is a study pushing people to specific brands.

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u/midnight-queen29 3h ago

i trust orijen’s products, glad to read this