Quality in pet food
What does it take to prevent the next recall?
Quality in pet food is no longer measured solely by the ability to detect problems. It's measured by the ability to maintain control over every batch, from raw material intake to its final disposition. That distinction has never been more important.
Pet food recalls continue to challenge manufacturers every year. In 2025 alone, the FDA recorded 17 completed pet food and animal feed recalls, with contamination, foreign materials and formulation-related issues among the recurring causes.
Most people assume these incidents happen because quality control failed. Sometimes, that's true. But not always.
Preventing a pet food recall goes beyond testing
Recent industry events have shown that quality control can successfully identify non-conforming products before they reach consumers and yet a recall can still occur if control over those products is lost later in the process.
The lesson isn't that testing failed. The lesson is that quality control doesn't stop when a batch is rejected.
It continues with every decision that follows.
- Has the batch been placed on hold?
- Who approved the quality decision?
- Is the batch status visible across all departments?
- Can every action be traced through a complete audit trail?
These aren't simply compliance questions. They're questions of operational control.
As supply chains become increasingly complex, quality data often becomes fragmented across laboratories, production sites, spreadsheets, ERP systems and external partners. Without connected data and workflows, maintaining visibility over non-conforming products becomes increasingly difficult.
This is where integrated solutions with Quality Control make the difference.
By connecting specifications, laboratory results, batch status, non-conformance workflows, approvals and audit trails into a single process, pet food producers gain confidence that every quality decision is documented, traceable and consistently executed. Rather than reacting to issues after the fact, quality teams can maintain control throughout the entire lifecycle of a batch from incoming ingredients to final disposition.
BESTMIX Quality Control centralizes laboratory testing, evaluates results against specifications, supports approval and rejection workflows, maintains complete audit trails, and integrates quality data with formulation and production processes to help pet food manufacturers make consistent, data-driven decisions.
Every pet food manufacturer invests in Quality Control.
The next recall may not be caused by a failed test. It may be caused by what happens after the test.
The choice is yours: strengthen your Quality Control with connected workflows and complete traceability now, or wait for the next incident to expose the gap.
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