Home / Recalls / Diamond Naturals
Diamond Naturals: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Diamond Naturals 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), 1 FDA recall on record, and 0 of the 19 Diamond Naturals foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 19 Diamond Naturals 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.
The source refers to disciplines/experts (veterinary medicine, companion animal nutrition) but does NOT name any specific board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate) or PhD nutritionist on staff. Per rules, null.
source & quote
view source →
Diamond Pet Foods owns and operates its own U.S. plants (Meta MO; Lathrop CA 1999; Gaston SC 2003; Ripon CA 2012; Dumas AR 2016; Frontenac KS 2021), where Diamond Naturals is produced.
source & quote
view source →
No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 3 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.
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.
source
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 Naturals
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)
source
Diamond Naturals is a house brand of Diamond Pet Foods, the trade name of privately held Schell & Kampeter, Inc.; Diamond Pet Foods is both owner and manufacturer of the brand.
view source →
Founded
Not publicly confirmed
source
Parent Diamond Pet Foods was founded 1970, but the specific launch year of the Diamond Naturals branded line was not verified from any fetched source; left null rather than guess.
view source →
Headquarters
Meta, Missouri, USA
source
Meta, Missouri is the historic home/HQ town of Diamond Pet Foods (Schell & Kampeter, Inc.).
view source →
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 Naturals.
All varieties and sizes of Diamond and Diamond Naturals dry dog and cat food produced at the Gaston, SC plant
Salmonella contamination linked to at least 14 human illnesses across 9 states — Diamond Pet Foods (Schell & Kampeter, Inc.)
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 Naturals's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
19
19 dog
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 19 (0%)
Formulated to meet
19
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
63%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Diamond Naturals we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.