Victor: Facts, Recalls & Verified Foods
Victor is made by Mid America Pet Food, LLC, founded 2007 — it scores green on 1 of 4 WSAVA-aligned criteria we track (0 red, 3 undisclosed), 2 FDA recalls on record, and 0 of the 3 Victor foods we've verified carry an AAFCO feeding-trial statement.
THE FACTS, ONE SENTENCE — · 3 Victor 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 · 0 confirmed no · 3 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.
Victor states it has an 'in-house nutritionist' but the fetched pages do NOT publish that person's credentials. Secondary sources indicate the staff nutritionist holds an MS degree plus a Professional Animal Scientist (PAS/ARPAS) certification — which is NOT a board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ACVN/ECVCN Diplomate) nor a PhD, so it would not meet the bar — but I could not verify that credential from a clean fetched quote, so value is null rather than true.
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Confirmed on victorpetfood.com/about-us: 'We proudly produce every bag of VICTOR kibble in our own Texas-based facility.' Mid America owns and operates its own plant.
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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.
Count of PubMed-indexed records with the entity in an author affiliation (animal/pet-domain filtered). A reproducible FLOOR, not a total: affiliation strings vary and some research is published under institute names. research_entity_affiliation is recorded only for manufacturers with a dedicated pet-nutrition research arm; brand_affiliation.count is null where the brand name is an ambiguous homonym.
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 Victor
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
Mid America Pet Food, LLC
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Mid America Pet Food is a portfolio company of private-equity firm TA Associates, which 'completed an investment in leading pet food marketer and manufacturer, Mid America Pet Food, LLC' (ta.com). So Mid America owns the Victor brand; TA Associates owns Mid America.
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Founded
2007
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VICTOR brand was introduced in 2007, same year Mid America Pet Food was founded.
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Headquarters
Mount Pleasant, Texas, USA
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Based in East Texas; facility/HQ at 2024 N Frontage Rd, Mount Pleasant, TX 75455 (per victorpetfood.com/about-us).
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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 Victor.
All Victor Super Premium dog and cat food with best-by dates before 10/31/2024 (all formulas and sizes) - the final expansion of the firm's 09/03/2023 and 10/30/2023 Victor recalls; the same recall also covered Wayne Feeds, Eagle Mountain, and two Member's Mark varieties made at the Mount Pleasant, TX plant
Potential Salmonella contamination; FDA/CDC linked the outbreak strain (Salmonella Kiambu) to seven human infections in seven states, six of them in children one year old or younger
Victor Super Premium Dog Food, Select Beef Meal & Brown Rice Formula (specific lots); part of a broader Mid America Pet Food Salmonella recall that began September 3, 2023 and later expanded to additional brands and products (Eagle Mountain, Wayne Feeds, Member's Mark) with best-by dates before 10/31/2024
Potential Salmonella contamination, linked to an FDA/CDC-investigated Salmonella Kiambu outbreak with seven reported human illnesses (six of them infants) and one hospitalization; a retail sample of Victor Hi-Pro Plus matched the outbreak strain
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 Victor's labels
Computed directly from the official-label data we've extracted for this brand — never estimated.
Foods verified
3
3 dog
Feeding-trial validated
0
of 3 (0%)
Formulated to meet
3
AAFCO paper calculation
Label transparency
51%
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The foods
Foods from Victor we've verified
Every one links to its own Verified Label — guaranteed analysis, AAFCO statement, and (where priced) cost per day.