Champion Dog Food Lawsuit
The lawsuit claims champion pet foods acana and orijen contain levels of arsenic mercury lead cadmium known to pose health risks to humans and animals including dogs and interestingly for a kibble pet food the lawsuit claims the dry pet food contained bisphenol a bpa.
Champion dog food lawsuit. Filed in colorado today 11 12 18 was an amended lawsuit complaint against champion pet food. A class action lawsuit has been filed against u s and canada based champion petfoods which makes acana and orijen cat and dog foods. An example from the lawsuit would be the arsenic claimed to be found in acana regionals wild atlantic new england fish and fresh greens dry dog food. The lawsuit includes results of heavy metal testing and includes results that this dry dog food contains bpa a chemical typically not associated with dry kibble pet foods.
The lawsuit now includes risk of inclusion in their pet food of pentobarbital. Consumers in minnesota california and florida are suing champion pet food for false advertising violations of feed law and numerous other charges. Orijen premium foods provide the diet that cats and dogs have evolved to eat featuring our highest inclusions of animal ingredients up to 90 in our freeze dried foods. District court central district of california against champion petfoods maker of premium pet food brands orijen and acana accusing the company of negligent reckless practices false advertising and failing to disclose the presence of heavy metals and toxins in its pet foods.
The class action lawsuit against champion pet food manufacturer of orijen and acana has been amended in a concerning way. The problems cited in these dog foods include heavy metal toxicity specifically arsenic lead and cadmium as well as contamination with bisphenol a bpa. Champion petfoods faces a class action lawsuit filed in a california district court by plaintiffs from florida minnesota and california. Fellow pet owners sadly we are forced to announce yet another pet food toxicity problem.
The lawsuit claims that champion s acana and orijen dog foods contain the heavy metals arsenic mercury lead cadmium along with bisphenol a bpa according to court documents. On march 1 2018 a class action lawsuit was filed in u s. The document in the lawsuit claims that this line of food contains 3256 40 micrograms of arsenic per kilogram or 3256 40 parts per billion of the material tested. This class action law suit involves two brands of dog food made by champion pet foods.
However the amounts of the heavy metals were in the microgram per kilogram. Lawsuit over champion petfood wild caught trout claims 7 months of grain free dog food didn t cause dcm signs 4 novel functional pet food ingredients like turmeric.