Open Farm: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Open Farm is made by Open Farm Inc. (independent), founded 2014 — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (2 red, 1 undisclosed), no FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 20 Open Farm foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 20 Open Farm 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 · 2 confirmed no · 1 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.
Dr. Moran Tal-Gavriel is Open Farm's Head of Veterinary Nutrition (in-house). 'Dip. ECVCN' = Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary and Comparative Nutrition.
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Uses third-party co-manufacturing partners; R&D, formulation and distribution are in-house in Toronto but production is outsourced.
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 37 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.
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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 Open Farm
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
Open Farm Inc. (independent)
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No fetched source establishes any parent-company ownership; Open Farm presents itself as its own Canadian company (privately held). Co-founded by Isaac Langleben, Jacqueline Prehogan and Derek Beigleman.
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Founded
2014
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Brand launched October 2014 in Eastern Canada, March 2015 in Western Canada.
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Headquarters
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Office in the Little Italy neighborhood of Toronto per founder interview.
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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 Open Farm.
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 Open Farm's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
20
3 dog · 17 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 20 (0%)
Formulated to meet
19
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
56%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Open Farm we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.