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Brand facts & recall history · updated 2026-07-11

Diamond CARE: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods

Diamond CARE is made by Schell & Kampeter, Inc. (Diamond Pet Foods) — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (1 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 2 Diamond CARE foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.

THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 2 Diamond CARE foods in our corpus

The scorecard

WSAVA-aligned criteria

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association's nutrition guidelines suggest four questions to ask any pet food maker before you buy. Most "best dog food" sites skip straight to ingredient vibes and star ratings — we publish the actual answers instead, each sourced, or marked honestly undisclosed when we can't confirm it.

1 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 1 confirmed no · 2 undisclosed. Undisclosed is common, especially for smaller brands — it means we couldn't confirm an answer from a public source, not that the answer is unfavorable.

? Qualified nutritionist on staff Undisclosed

Refers to disciplines/experts but names no board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ACVN/ECVCN) or PhD; null per rule.

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“Our foods are developed using... a team of experts and scientists incorporating the latest research from many disciplines: veterinary medicine, companion animal nutrition, food microbiology...”
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Owns its manufacturing Owns its plants

Diamond Pet Foods owns and operates its own U.S. plants, where Diamond CARE is produced.

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“The second generation of Schell and Kampeter families still own and operate the company.”
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? Runs AAFCO feeding trials Undisclosed

No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 4 labels we’ve verified for this brand, and no company-wide claim was found either. Most pet foods are only "formulated to meet" AAFCO profiles (a paper calculation) rather than fed to real animals in trials — this is common, not necessarily a red flag.

Publishes peer-reviewed research None found

A reproducible PubMed search (author-affiliation field, animal/pet-domain filtered) returns zero indexed papers for this brand name. Not proof no research exists — only that none is PubMed-indexed under this exact name.

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These four checks come from WSAVA's global nutrition guidelines for evaluating a pet food manufacturer — not our own opinion score. Read our full methodology →

The company

Who makes Diamond CARE

Ownership and history, each sourced independently — private-label and co-packed brands often hide the actual manufacturer behind the name on the bag.

Parent company

Schell & Kampeter, Inc. (Diamond Pet Foods)

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“The second generation of Schell and Kampeter families still own and operate the company.”

Diamond CARE is a Diamond Pet Foods brand (trade name of privately held Schell & Kampeter, Inc.), which owns and manufactures it.
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Founded

Not publicly confirmed

Headquarters

Meta, Missouri, USA

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“They purchased a former milling company in the town of Meta, Missouri (population 220), and the Diamond company was born.”

Meta, Missouri is the historic home/HQ town of Diamond Pet Foods.
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The safety record

FDA recall history

Joined from the FDA's own Animal & Veterinary recall feed (2019–present) plus curated pre-2019 records — the same live-checked feed as our full recall database, filtered to Diamond CARE.

No FDA recalls on record for Diamond CARE in the FDA's Animal & Veterinary feed (2019–present) or our curated pre-2019 records. That's what's currently documented — not a guarantee no recall has ever happened; see the coverage note below.

Join of data/recalls.json (FDA Animal & Veterinary recall feed, 2019-present) + data/recalls_historical.json. This is NOT a complete lifetime recall history; recalls predating 2019 (or absent from the FDA datatable) are not represented unless curated in recalls_historical.json.

The corpus

What we've verified from Diamond CARE's labels

Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.

Foods verified

2

0 dog · 2 cat

Feeding-trial validated

0

of 2 (0%)

Formulated to meet

0

AAFCO paper calculation

Label transparency

53%

avg. fields disclosed

dry 2 (100%)

The foods

Foods from Diamond CARE we've verified

Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.

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