Freshpet: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Freshpet is made by Freshpet, Inc., founded 2006 — it scores green on 2 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (0 red, 2 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 4 Freshpet foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 4 Freshpet 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.
2 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 0 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.
Names Lisa Weeth, DVM, DACVIM (Nutrition), a full-time Freshpet employee. Page also lists PhD-holding staff scientists including Gerardo Pérez-Camargo, DVM, PhD and Eden Ephraim, PhD.
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10-K states Freshpet owns and operates its own 'Freshpet Kitchens' facilities in Bethlehem, PA and Ennis, TX.
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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.
3 PubMed-indexed papers carry this brand's name in an author affiliation — but without a recognized pet-nutrition research arm we can't confirm these are the company's own studies rather than unrelated name matches (surnames, the taxonomic family "Canidae", institutions). We don't count it as confirmed research.
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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 Freshpet
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
Freshpet, Inc.
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Independent publicly traded company (NASDAQ: FRPT); no parent company — owned by public shareholders.
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Founded
2006
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Confirmed via fetched Wikipedia page.
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Headquarters
Bedminster, New Jersey, USA
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Founded in and long headquartered in Secaucus, NJ; moved HQ to Bedminster, NJ in 2024 per recent 10-K and Wikipedia.
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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 Freshpet.
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 Freshpet's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
4
4 dog
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 4 (0%)
Formulated to meet
4
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
47%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Freshpet we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.