In August 2026 alone, three separate companies pulled dog food from shelves: a frozen raw maker over Salmonella, a second raw maker after three reported dog illnesses, and Fromm Family Foods over possible metal in canned pâté. Three notices. Three very different reasons. One bag of food in your kitchen that may or may not be on the list.
Quick Answer
The confirmed dog food recall 2026 notices on the FDA list include Northwest Naturals frozen chicken raw food (lots B-5 and B-19, Salmonella and Listeria), Fromm Family Foods Turkey Pâté and Diner Classics Milo’s Meatloaf Pâté (possible metal contamination), Oma’s Pride Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe (lot BB012729), Fi dog supplements (lots 26118 and 26159), and the continuing Raaw Energy advisory covering all product made between July 17 and December 23, 2025. A recall applies to specific lot codes and UPCs, not to a whole brand, so the number printed on your bag decides whether your food is affected. Check it against the FDA animal food recalls and withdrawals page, which is the primary record and the page this tracker follows.
Key Takeaways: Dog Food Recall 2026
- Lot codes decide everything. A dog food recall 2026 notice names a product, a lot number, a best-by date, and a UPC. Same brand, different lot, usually fine.
- Raw and frozen diets dominated 2026 so far. Northwest Naturals, Oma’s Pride, and Raaw Energy are all raw or frozen products pulled for bacterial contamination.
- Not every recall is about bacteria. Fromm’s August recall was about possible metal pieces in canned pâté, which is a physical hazard, not a microbial one.
- Supplements count too. Fi recalled two dog supplement lots in September 2026 because an ingredient supplied to its manufacturer may have carried Salmonella.
- Three dog illnesses were reported in connection with the Oma’s Pride complaint, with no human illnesses reported at the time of the FDA notice.
- Symptoms are not specific. Vomiting, diarrhea, fever, lethargy, and reduced appetite can follow contaminated food, but they also follow a stolen sandwich. A vet decides, not a search bar.
- You can report suspect food yourself through the FDA Safety Reporting Portal, and your report can start an investigation.
- No brand carries a lifetime clean record guarantee. Past recalls tell you how a company responded, not what will happen next quarter.
- Guidance and recall listings on this page were checked October 2026 and will change as new notices post.
Which dog foods have been recalled in 2026?
The dog food and dog supplement recalls documented on FDA notices in 2026 that this tracker has verified are Northwest Naturals (two raw frozen chicken products), Fromm Family Foods (two canned pâté varieties), Oma’s Pride (one frozen raw lot), Fi (two supplement lots), and Raaw Energy (an expanded advisory covering months of production). FDA has also posted a voluntary recall of two lots of Pedigree canned High Protein Chopped Chicken and Duck Flavor wet dog food and, on the cat side, a Revival Animal Health recall of feline milk replacers over inconsistent vitamin levels.
Use the checker below to search by brand or product, then compare the code on your packaging. Every row comes from the FDA or company notice linked in this article.
Dog food recall 2026 FDA list in table form
| Date | Brand | Product | Lot / UPC | Reason | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 to 29, 2026 | Northwest Naturals | Frozen Chicken Recipe 2 lb; Frozen Raw Diet Chicken 6 lb | B-5, best by 01/26/2028, UPC 087316384956; B-19, best by 01/25/2028, UPC 087316380392 | Salmonella; second lot also Listeria monocytogenes | FDA notice |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Fromm Family Foods | Turkey Pâté 12.2 oz; Diner Classics Milo’s Meatloaf Pâté 12.5 oz | EP2A3306 551006 and EP2A3306 551029, both best by 03/2029 | Possible metal contamination | FDA notice |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Oma’s Pride | Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe, 6 lb bag of twelve 8 oz portions | Lot BB012729 | Contamination complaint; three dog illnesses reported | FDA notice |
| Sep 2026 | Fi | Calming Supplement 180 g; 8-in-1 Formula Supplement 180 g | Lots 26118 and 26159 | Possible Salmonella in a supplied ingredient | FDA recalls page |
| May 22, 2026 update | Raaw Energy | Dog food, expanded from eight lots to all product made Jul 17 to Dec 23, 2025, plus one Mar 31, 2026 lot | See advisory | Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni | FDA advisory |
| 2026 | Pedigree | Canned High Protein Chopped Chicken and Duck Flavor wet dog food, two lots | See notice | See notice | FDA notice |
| 2026 (cat food) | Revival Animal Health | Feline milk replacers | See notice | Inconsistent vitamin levels | FDA notice |
If your product is not in this table, that is good news and not proof. New notices post without warning, so search the FDA page directly before you decide.
What should I do if my dog ate a recalled food?
Stop feeding the product immediately, seal the packaging in a bag and keep it (do not throw it away, the codes matter), wash bowls and scoops in hot soapy water, and call your vet with the brand, product, lot code, and the stated hazard. Then report it to FDA. If your dog is vomiting repeatedly, bloody, feverish, limp, or refusing water, that is a same-day veterinary call rather than a monitoring situation.
Symptoms of contaminated dog food in dogs
Signs depend on the contaminant, and none of them are unique to recalled food.
- Bacterial contamination (Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter): vomiting, diarrhea that may contain blood or mucus, fever, low energy, appetite loss, and sometimes no signs at all while the dog still sheds bacteria in stool. Puppies, seniors, pregnant dogs, and dogs on immune-suppressing medication carry more risk.
- Metal or other physical fragments: pawing at the mouth, drooling, dropping food, bleeding gums, repeated gagging, or sudden refusal of a food the dog liked yesterday.
- Nutrient errors, including vitamin D excess: increased thirst and urination, vomiting, weight loss, and drooling, often building over days rather than hours. Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s 2019 vitamin D recalls remain the clearest example of why a formulation error can be as serious as a pathogen.
- Aflatoxin, from mold on grain ingredients: sluggishness, appetite loss, vomiting, yellowing of the gums or eyes, and diarrhea. The 2021 Midwestern Pet Foods aflatoxin recalls are the reference case many owners still remember.
The handling risk matters as much as the eating risk. Salmonella and Listeria spread from scoops, bowls, counters, freezer drawers, and dog saliva to human hands. People in the household can get sick without touching the food directly, which is part of why FDA treats raw pet food contamination as a human health issue too.
How to report a dog food recall to FDA
You cannot start a recall, but you can start the complaint that leads to one. File through the FDA Safety Reporting Portal for pet food, or contact the FDA Consumer Complaint Coordinator for your state. The agency asks for details, so gather them before you file:
- Brand, product name, and exact package size.
- Lot code, best-by date, and UPC, photographed if possible.
- Where and when you bought it, including receipt if you have it.
- What your dog ate, how much, and over how many days.
- Clinical signs, dates they began, and your vet’s findings or diagnostics.
- Whether anyone in the household also got sick.
Keep the remaining food frozen or sealed. Oma’s Pride’s 2026 recall followed a consumer complaint, which is a reasonable reminder that owner reports carry weight.
How do you check your bag’s lot number and UPC?
Find the UPC under the barcode on the back or bottom of the package, then find the lot code and best-by date, usually ink-jet printed on the back seam of a bag, the rim or lid of a can, or a sticker on frozen packaging. Match all three against the notice. One matching digit string is not enough, because recalls are issued by lot.
Where to look, by format:
- Dry kibble bags: bottom gusset or back seam, often a smudgy inkjet line that includes a plant code and a date.
- Cans and pâté tubs: stamped on the lid or the bottom rim. Fromm’s recalled codes, for example, run as a two-part string such as EP2A3306 551006.
- Frozen raw: printed on the outer bag, and sometimes only on the outer bag, which is why cutting open a 6 lb bag and freezing the portions loose makes a recall check nearly impossible later.
- Supplements: base of the tub or the label edge. Fi’s recalled lots are short four and five digit codes, 26118 and 26159.
A decision rule that saves arguing with yourself: if the UPC matches but you cannot read the lot code, treat the product as affected and stop feeding it. The cost of a replacement bag is lower than the cost of a wrong guess.
Common mistake: assuming the retailer will contact you. Store loyalty cards sometimes trigger alerts, and sometimes do not. Online subscription orders are easier to trace, which is one practical argument in favour of buying through a fresh food delivery subscription with traceable order history.
Which recalls in 2026 were the most serious?
By scope and documented hazard, the Raaw Energy case is the most serious dog food recall 2026 story so far. FDA’s May 22 update widened it from eight identified lots to all product manufactured between July 17 and December 23, 2025, plus one lot made March 31, 2026, after samples tested positive for one or more of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, and Campylobacter jejuni.
It did not stop there. On September 22, 2026, FDA published a warning letter documenting significant violations at the Raaw Energy facility in Adelphi, New Jersey following a January 13 to 22 inspection. FDA reported that finished-product samples contained all three organisms and described the operation as lacking pathogen-control steps that pet food manufacturers routinely use. A warning letter is a regulatory finding about a facility, which is a different and heavier thing than a single lot failing a test.
How the 2026 hazards compare:
| Hazard | Found in 2026 | Why it matters | Human risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salmonella | Northwest Naturals, Fi supplements, Raaw Energy | Illness in dogs; dogs can shed it without looking sick | Yes, through handling and contact |
| Listeria monocytogenes | Northwest Naturals lot B-19, Raaw Energy | Survives refrigeration; serious for pregnancy and weak immunity | Yes |
| Campylobacter jejuni | Raaw Energy | Diarrheal illness, often from raw poultry | Yes |
| Metal fragments | Fromm Turkey Pâté and Milo’s Meatloaf Pâté | Mouth and gut injury; no symptoms until it hurts | Low, unless handled |
| Nutrient inconsistency | Revival feline milk replacers (cat product) | Deficiency or excess builds slowly | No |
What causes dog food recalls?
Most recalls trace back to one of six things: bacterial contamination of raw or under-processed ingredients, mycotoxins such as aflatoxin on grain, foreign material from equipment (metal, plastic), vitamin or mineral miscalculation during mixing, mislabelling that hides an allergen or the wrong protein, and packaging failure that lets food spoil.
The 2026 pattern leans toward the first and third of those. If you want to understand which label details predict the fewest surprises, this guide on how to read a dog food label and what AAFCO statements mean covers the parts most owners skip.
Are grain free dog foods more likely to be recalled?
No. There is no evidence that removing grain changes recall likelihood, and the 2026 notices do not sort neatly by grain content. What does correlate with bacterial recalls is raw or minimally processed food, because no kill step is applied before packaging. That is a processing question, not a grain question.
Grain free diets have carried a separate conversation about diet-associated canine dilated cardiomyopathy, which FDA has investigated and which remains unresolved rather than proven. Recall risk and that question are different subjects, and mixing them produces bad shopping decisions. If you are weighing formats, our comparison of dry, wet and raw dog food and which suits which dog separates the handling risks from the nutrition claims.
Which dog food companies have the most recalls?
No public ranking of lifetime recall counts is maintained by FDA, and counting notices without weighting for volume sold, product type, and company size produces a misleading table. What is fair to say: companies producing raw and frozen raw diets appear in bacterial recall notices more often than companies producing retorted canned or extruded dry food, because heat processing removes a hazard that raw handling has to control through testing.
Large manufacturers also appear in headlines because they sell enormous volumes. Hill’s vitamin D recalls in 2019 and the Midwestern Pet Foods aflatoxin recalls in 2021 involved established operations, not fringe brands. The useful comparison is how a company behaved: did it name lots clearly, publish UPCs, offer refunds, and act before or after FDA pressure. We walk through that assessment in our method for judging a dog food brand before you buy it.
How long does it take FDA to recall dog food?
Most pet food recalls in the United States are voluntary and announced by the company, sometimes within days of a positive test or a consumer complaint. Investigations that require sampling, laboratory confirmation, and traceback take longer, and an advisory can expand months after it starts. Raaw Energy illustrates both ends: an advisory on specific lots, then a May 2026 expansion across months of production, then a September 2026 warning letter about the facility.
FDA can request a recall and, under the Food Safety Modernization Act, order one when a company refuses and the product presents a reasonable probability of serious harm. In practice, firms act first because distributors and retailers want the product gone.
Are there dog food brands with no recalls, and what should you feed during one?
Some brands have no recall history, and that is a weaker signal than it sounds: a small brand selling for three years has had fewer chances to fail than a brand selling for forty. A clean record is worth noting next to manufacturing details, not instead of them.
What to look for instead of a spotless record:
- Owned manufacturing or a named co-manufacturer, so you know who makes the food.
- Batch testing described specifically, including which pathogens and how often.
- A recall history you can read. Clear lot codes, published UPCs, and a refund route suggest a traceability system that works.
- An AAFCO nutritional adequacy statement for the right life stage, with feeding trial or formulation basis stated.
- A reachable nutrition contact. A phone number answered by someone who can read a lot code is a real feature.
Safe dog food alternatives during a recall
If you need to swap out a recalled bag today, pick a food that keeps your dog’s calories and protein roughly stable, then transition over five to seven days once the emergency passes. A sudden change plus the stress of a sick dog is a recipe for a second mess on the hallway rug.
- Short-term bridge: a cooked, plain combination such as boiled lean meat and white rice for a day or two, which is low in several nutrients and not a long-term diet. Our list of what to feed a dog when you run out of dog food has safer and less safe options.
- Longer-term replacement: a complete and balanced food from a different manufacturer, ideally a different processing type if the recall was bacterial. Then follow a proper changeover using this guide to switching dog food without upsetting their stomach.
- If you feed raw and want to keep feeding raw: tighten handling. Dedicated boards, hot soapy washing, no thawing on counters, no feeding near toddlers. Our notes on frozen and raw dog food storage, safety and cost cover the practical setup.
Edge case worth naming: a dog on a veterinary therapeutic diet for kidney disease, pancreatitis, or diagnosed food allergy should not be switched on your own. Call the prescribing vet for an equivalent before you open anything new.
How do you get recall alerts automatically?
Subscribe to the FDA email alerts for animal and veterinary recalls, then add one independent list as a backup. Relying on social media alone means you hear about recalls from the person in your neighbourhood group who also believes kibble causes thunderstorms.
Sources worth setting up, with honest notes on what each one is good for:
- FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine recalls page. The primary record, with lot codes and UPCs. Also the CVM Updates and Outbreaks and Advisories pages for cases that have not reached recall stage. Plain, slow, accurate.
- AVMA pet food recall list. The American Veterinary Medical Association maintains a running summary that is easy to scan. Good for a weekly check, not for breaking news.
- Dog Food Advisor recall alerts. Fast email notification and a free signup. Its brand ratings are opinion-based, so use the alerts and form your own view on the reviews.
- Your retailer’s account emails. Chewy, Amazon, and many independent stores notify purchasers of recalled items. Only works if you bought it logged in.
- Manufacturer newsletters for the two or three brands you actually feed.
Readers outside the United States should add their national regulator, because the FDA list does not cover products sold only in the UK, EU, Canada, or Australia.
A recall notice is not an accusation against your shopping. It is a lot number, a date, and a job that takes four minutes.
FAQ
Is there a Purina dog food recall 2026?
No Purina dog food recall appears among the 2026 notices verified for this tracker. The confirmed 2026 dog food and supplement recalls are Northwest Naturals, Fromm Family Foods, Oma’s Pride, Fi, Raaw Energy, and a Pedigree canned wet food notice. Check the FDA recalls page before acting on any claim you see shared online, and see our Purina range and price review for what the brand actually sells.
What is the Fromm dog food recall 2026 about?
Fromm Family Foods recalled 3,852 cases of Turkey Pâté (12.2 oz, UPC 072705118700, lot EP2A3306 551006) and 1,973 cases of Diner Classics Milo’s Meatloaf Pâté (12.5 oz, UPC 072705132324, lot EP2A3306 551029) on August 21, 2026 because of possible metal contamination. Both carry a best-by date of 03/2029.
Which dog food brand has the most recalls?
No official count exists, and raw counts favour whoever has been in business longest. Raw and frozen raw brands appear most often in bacterial recall notices, because their products have no heat kill step. Judge a company by how clearly it published lot codes and how fast it acted.
What should I do if my dog ate recalled food but seems fine?
Stop feeding it, keep the packaging, wash bowls in hot soapy water, and tell your vet what the dog ate and the stated hazard. Many dogs exposed to Salmonella show no signs while still shedding bacteria, so hygiene matters even with a cheerful dog.
Was there a cat food recall in 2026?
Yes. Revival Animal Health recalled feline milk replacers because of inconsistent levels of vitamins, which affects kittens being hand-reared rather than adult cats on regular food. Cat owners should follow the same FDA page as dog owners, because animal food notices are listed together.
Did any 2026 recall involve aflatoxin?
Not among the verified 2026 dog food notices. The 2026 recalls centre on Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter jejuni, and possible metal contamination. The aflatoxin case owners usually mean is the Midwestern Pet Foods recall in 2021.
Can I get a refund for recalled dog food?
Usually yes. Return the product or the packaging to the retailer, or contact the manufacturer directly using the phone number in the recall notice. Photograph the lot code and UPC before you hand anything over.
Is this dog food recall 2026 list kept current?
This page is updated as notices change and was last checked October 2026. Treat the FDA animal food recalls and withdrawals page as the live source, since new notices appear there first.
Conclusion
The one task worth doing today: walk to wherever the food lives, photograph the back panel including the UPC, the lot code, and the best-by date, then compare it against the checker above and the FDA page. If it matches, stop feeding, seal the bag, call your vet, and file a report. If it does not match, you still have the photo, which means the next time a notice lands you will spend thirty seconds on it instead of thirty minutes.
Then do the boring second step. Subscribe to FDA animal recall alerts and one backup list. Recall notices are not interesting reading, and that is exactly why nobody is watching the one that matters until someone tells them to look.