Sheba: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Sheba is made by Mars, Incorporated (Mars Petcare), founded 1982 — 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 52 Sheba foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 52 Sheba 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.
Sheba's fetched FAQ covers ingredient sourcing/quality but names no nutritionist credentials. Part of Mars Pet Nutrition/Waltham system, but no Sheba-specific fetched source confirms a board-certified vet nutritionist or PhD nutritionist on staff, so null.
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Sheba wet cat food is produced at Mars Petcare's owned/operated Fort Smith, Arkansas plant (a Mars-owned facility). Some Sheba treat SKUs are reportedly made abroad, but core wet cat food is made in a Mars-owned plant.
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 110 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.
658 PubMed-indexed papers carry "Waltham Petcare Science Institute (Mars)" in an author affiliation (animal/pet-domain filtered) — a reproducible floor, not a total.
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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 Sheba
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
Mars, Incorporated (Mars Petcare)
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Headquarters
Hamburg, Germany (brand origin)
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Sheba originated as a German brand (Hamburg). It has no standalone HQ; it is a Mars Petcare brand (US operations under Mars Petcare US, Franklin, Tennessee).
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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 Sheba.
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 Sheba's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
52
0 dog · 52 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 52 (0%)
Formulated to meet
0
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
5%
avg. fields disclosed
The foods
Foods from Sheba we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.