Solid Gold: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Solid Gold is made by Health & Happiness (H&H) Group International Holdings Ltd, founded 1974 — it scores green on 0 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (2 red, 2 undisclosed), 1 FDA recall on record, and 0 of the 23 Solid Gold foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 23 Solid Gold 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.
0 of 4 criteria confirmed yes · 2 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.
Claims a PhD nutritionist but names no individual and cites no DACVN/ACVN credential; null per rule.
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Third-party co-packed (cats.com names Diamond Pet Foods as primary US dry co-packer).
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No feeding-trial AAFCO statement found on the 46 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 Solid Gold
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
Health & Happiness (H&H) Group International Holdings Ltd
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Hong Kong-based H&H Group acquired Solid Gold in Nov 2020.
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Founded
1974
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Founder Sissy (Harrington-)McGill; first holistic pet food in the US.
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Headquarters
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Brand originated in San Diego, CA; HQ now St. Louis (Chesterfield) MO post-2020 acquisition.
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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 Solid Gold.
WolfCub Large Breed Puppy Food and WolfKing Large Breed Adult Dog Food (one batch each; Best Before Dec 30, 2012, with an 'X' in the 11th digit of the date code)
Possible Salmonella health risk; batches made at the co-packer's Gaston, SC plant (the 2012 Gaston Salmonella event)
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 Solid Gold's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
23
0 dog · 23 cat
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 23 (0%)
Formulated to meet
0
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
23%
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The foods
Foods from Solid Gold we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.