Orijen dog food and cat food in India

At a glance

The table below is what can be established about this brand from primary records, and what cannot. Every row reading "Not established" is written up in full at the foot of the page, with what was looked for and where.

Where it is made

Origin is recorded per product, not per brand, because it varies per product. The evidence column says how strong each row is: a pack in hand outranks a filing, and a marketplace listing is the weakest thing here that is still evidence.

What it costs in India

Each row is one seller's listed price for one pack size on one date, converted to a price per kilogram so the pack sizes compare. Indian marketplace pricing moves, so a single listing is not a price and none of these is quoted on its own.

• Petsworld, Orijen Original dry dog food, 11.4 kg. Cheapest of the five by Rs 2,950, and unchanged from this project's August reading. Reference price shown is Rs 12,999, a thousand rupees below the figure two other sellers show for the same bag. The same seller's 17 kg at Rs 14,449 works out at Rs 849.94 per kg, the lowest rate found for this brand in India.
• Zigly, Orijen Original dry dog food, 11.4 kg. Reference price Rs 13,999, so a 3 percent discount. This is the figure whose division by 74 lands on exactly 183.50; the other four prices for the same bag do not behave that way at the same rate, which is what settles it as chance. This seller publishes no country of origin for Orijen at all.
• Supertails, Orijen Original dry dog food, 11.4 kg. Price equals its own displayed reference price, so no discount is shown on this or on any other Orijen variant at this seller. Up from Rs 12,739 in this project's August reading, a rise of Rs 1,260 or 9.9 percent in seven weeks. Matches the importer's own shop to the rupee across the entire range.
• Heads Up For Tails, Orijen Original dry dog food, 11.4 kg. No reference price shown on this variant. This seller does discount the 2 kg packs across the range, to Rs 3,199 against a Rs 3,599 reference, so the full-price position is specific to the large bags rather than a shop-wide policy.
• DogKart, operated by the importer, Orijen Original dry dog food, 11.4 kg. The storefront run by GNV Commodities, the company named as importer and marketer on its competitors' listings, confirmed by the gnvcommodities contact address on its own About page. Shows no reference price and therefore no discount anywhere. Its figure is the one two other sellers display as the reference price they discount from.
• Petsworld, Orijen Original dry dog food, 17 kg. The cheapest rate per kilogram found for Orijen in India. Reference price Rs 16,999, against the Rs 17,999 two other sellers show for the same bag.
• Supertails, Orijen Original dry dog food, 17 kg. 24.6 percent above Petsworld for the same bag. Buying this instead of the 340 g trial pack at the same seller saves 52 percent per kilogram, which is the largest pack-size effect on the brand.
• DogKart, operated by the importer, Orijen Original dry dog food, 17 kg. Identical to Supertails to the rupee, as every other Orijen figure at this shop is. It is also the figure Zigly displays as the reference price it discounts from on the same bag.
• Supertails, Orijen Original dry dog food, 340 g trial pack. 108.1 percent more per kilogram than the same seller's 17 kg bag. Worth it to test whether a dog will eat an expensive food, but not a way to buy it.
• DogKart, operated by the importer, Orijen Original dry dog food, 340 g trial pack. The same Rs 749. Zigly prices its 340 g at Rs 699 against a Rs 699 reference, so the trial pack is the one size where the importer's shop is not the cheapest available.
• Petsworld, Orijen Original dry cat food, 17 kg. Orijen sells cat food in India at every seller read, which matters because the brand's only established recall was a recall of Orijen cat food. Cheapest of the three sellers carrying this bag.
• Zigly, Orijen Original dry cat food, 17 kg. Reference price Rs 18,999, against the Rs 19,999 Supertails shows. The same seller lists two different 1.8 kg Orijen cat products at Rs 3,879 and Rs 2,799, a 38.6 percent gap inside one shop, with the cheaper out of stock.
• Supertails, Orijen Original dry cat food, 17 kg. 23.8 percent above Petsworld for the same bag, the cat equivalent of the dog spread and driven by the same sellers.

Recall checks

Each register below was searched for this brand, and then searched again for something comparable to prove it answers at all. A register that returns nothing for both has cleared nothing. India maintains no pet food recall register, so no row here can stand in for one.

Mars has owned Orijen since February 2023

Mars completed its acquisition of Champion Petfoods on 28 February 2023, so Orijen has had the same owner as Pedigree, Whiskas, Sheba and Royal Canin for over three years, and Champion's own About page does not say so.

The transaction, from both sides. Mars Petcare announced a definitive agreement on 1 November 2022 to buy Champion Petfoods "from an investor group led by Bedford Capital and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan", and announced completion on 28 February 2023, adding that Champion "will operate as an independent business unit within Mars Pet Nutrition". The pension plan's own announcement a week later says it "held a majority stake in Champion since our initial investment in 2009, alongside Bedford Capital and Kensington Capital" and reports a return of over 50 percent.

Those two accounts differ, and this page prints both rather than smoothing them. Mars describes a group "led by" Bedford Capital and the pension plan; the pension plan says it held the majority and names a third investor Mars does not mention. Both are primary sources from the two sides of one deal. They are reconcilable, because leading a deal operationally and holding the larger economic stake are different things, but nothing read here states which reading is right.

Google tells Indian searchers what the brand's own page does not. The AI Overview for a search on where Orijen is made opens "Orijen dog food is manufactured by Champion Petfoods (owned by Mars, Incorporated)". So on this brand the answer engine is ahead of the manufacturer's own About page, which is an unusual thing to be able to say and is worth saying plainly.

Why an Indian buyer should care, in one sentence. The single most common comparison people ask Google about this brand is "Is Royal Canin or Orijen better?", which appears in the People Also Ask box on both of the queries pulled for this page, and Royal Canin is also Mars. Someone trading up from Pedigree to Orijen, or weighing Orijen against Royal Canin, is choosing between two products of one company, and nothing on either pack says so.

Made in Champion's own kitchens, and the Indian pack says Canada

Champion makes Orijen itself rather than contracting it out, in a kitchen at Acheson in Alberta and another at Auburn in Kentucky, and every Indian listing that declares a country declares Canada.

From the company's own FAQ, read today. "The Champion Petfoods story began in 1985 with our first NorthStar Kitchen located in the vast Canadian prairies at the heart of Alberta's dynamic agricultural community"; "We opened our custom-built DogStar Kitchen in Auburn, Kentucky, USA"; and "In December 2019, we opened our new NorthStar kitchen, in Acheson, Alberta";. Owning the plant is the real distinction from most of this directory: Felix and Supercoat are made for their owner by a third party, and Orijen is not.

What the Indian listings declare. Supertails gives "Country of Origin: Canada" with "Name & Address of Manufacturer: Champion Petfoods LP, 301, 1103 95 Street SW, Edmonton, AB T6CX 0P8, Canada", on the dog listing and the cat listing alike. Heads Up For Tails independently gives Canada. Canada and Kentucky are both consistent with the company's two kitchens, so unlike several brands here the origin declaration is credible on its face.

One transcription error that has survived at least seven weeks. The Edmonton address on both Supertails listings reads "AB T6CX 0P8". That is not a valid Canadian postal code, which alternates letter, digit, letter, digit, letter, digit; the plausible intended value is T6X 0P8. It is a seller's transcription rather than anything the manufacturer printed, it was recorded in this project's August research and it is still live today, and it matters only as a reminder that a statutory block at a retailer is typed by the retailer.

And the top organic result for the origin query does not answer it either. Champion's European FAQ ranks first for a search on where Orijen is made, and its answer to its own question "Who makes ORIJEN foods and where are they made?" is "ORIJEN Dried foods are made by Champion Petfoods in our own kitchens". That names the company and no country. The country has to come from the pack, and the kitchen that actually filled a given bag stays unnamed on every Indian listing read.

The Indian range runs across every life stage, on both species. On the dog side Supertails and its siblings carry Original, Six Fish, Puppy, Large Breed Puppy, Senior and Small Breed; on the cat side Original Cat and Kitten. The pack sizes are 340 g, 2 kg, 6 kg, 11.4 kg and 17 kg for the dog lines and 340 g, 1.8 kg, 5.4 kg and 17 kg for the cat lines, and those pack sizes matter more than usual here because the rate per kilogram nearly halves between the smallest and the largest.

One company is the importer, the marketer and a competing shop

Every Indian Orijen listing names GNV Commodities Private Limited as the party responsible to the buyer, a Delhi-registered company that also operates the DogKart storefront and that neither Champion nor Mars names anywhere found.

The same company, on every seller, in both roles. Supertails prints "Imported by: GNV Commodities Private Limited, 310, Kuthambakkam Road Mevalur Kuppam Sriperumbudur Chennai Tamil Nadu (IN) 602105 India" and gives the identical value for "Marketed by";. Heads Up For Tails prints the same company and address under "Imported & Marketed by";. Zigly names "GNV Commodities Pvt Ltd" but at Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and Petsworld names it with no address.

Marketed by is the part that matters. In Indian labelling practice the marketer is the entity answerable to the consumer, so for a complaint about a bag of Orijen bought in India, this company is the counterparty, not Champion and not Mars.

So who is it? The registry answers, and the answer is worth reading slowly. GNV Commodities Private Limited, CIN U67190DL2013PTC259674, was incorporated on 28 October 2013, is Active, is registered with the Registrar of Companies in Delhi, and has its registered office at K-1/124, Lower Ground Floor, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi 110019. Its authorised and paid-up share capital are each Rs 100,000, a figure that is the conventional minimum for a private limited company and says nothing about its turnover. Its registry activity code is 6719, described as "Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation n.e.c.", a class the registry glosses as covering "financial advisers, mortgage advisers and brokers, bureaux de change", and a code of that kind is set at incorporation and very often never updated, so it is not evidence of anything improper. The last annual general meeting recorded is 29 September 2023 and the last balance sheet recorded as filed is dated 31 March 2023, on a mirror of the registry that can lag it.

It is a real importer, on independent evidence. The company holds a Legal Entity Identifier, 3358005GFKNANLY3WT94, issued 2 August 2021, which is the identifier used in international transactions. It describes itself on LinkedIn as "a pan-India pet supplies distributor committed to bringing the best of global pet care to Indian pets";. And its several addresses have a mundane explanation. Five places turn up across the sources read: Sriperumbudur near Chennai on the Supertails and Heads Up For Tails listings, Noida on Zigly's, the registered office at Chittaranjan Park in New Delhi, Bengaluru on its IndiaMART listing, and Sendrambakkam near Chennai on its own DogKart pages. Two GST registrations, 29AAFCG3865K1Z3 in Karnataka and 09AAFCG3865K1Z5 in Uttar Pradesh, share the PAN fragment AAFCG3865K, so they belong to one legal person registered in more than one state, which is ordinary for a distributor and accounts for most of the spread.

The genuinely novel part: the importer also runs a shop. DogKart, at dogkart.in, ranks on page one of an Indian search for Orijen prices. Two company-data sources associate the DogKart brand with GNV Commodities, and DogKart's own About page and homepage settle it by carrying a gnvcommodities contact address, together with a Chennai address at Sendrambakkam. So the company named as importer and marketer on its competitors' listings sells the same food directly to the same buyers.

What is still not established, and it is the important one. Whether GNV Commodities is an authorised Champion or Mars importer, or a parallel importer, is not established. Champion publishes no India distributor page, its site-wide "Distributors Contact" link returns HTTP 404, and no Champion or Mars page found names any Indian distributor. The company's own self-description is not the manufacturer's acknowledgement. This page does not infer authorisation from the fact that four mainstream retailers stock the product, and does not infer its absence from silence either.

The 85 percent is measured before the food is cooked

Champion states that Orijen recipes carry 85 to 90 percent animal ingredients, and its own asterisk says the figure is approximate and taken from the ingredients' unprocessed state, which is before cooking removes their water.

Three of the company's own pages give three different headline numbers for one brand. Champion's homepage says Orijen "is packed with up to 90%* animal ingredients like meat, poultry or fish". Its European FAQ answers "How much meat is in a recipe?" with "Our recipes feature 85-90%* quality animal ingredients in unparalleled variety". Its UK page for the Original recipe, the same recipe sold in India, says "ORIJEN Original diet is packed with 85%* quality animal ingredients"; ORIJEN pet foods Europe ORIJEN pet foods UK, ORIJEN Original.

They are consistent once you read them as a range. The line runs 85 to 90 percent, "up to 90" is its ceiling, and the Original recipe sits at the bottom at 85. A buyer who reads "up to 90%" on the brand's homepage and assumes the bag in front of them is 90 percent has misread a ceiling as a figure, which is a thing marketing copy invites.

The Indian listing drops both qualifiers. Zigly's Orijen page states "It contains 85% quality animal ingredients, including fresh or raw free-run chicken and turkey, wild-caught fish, and nutrient-rich organs and bones", and separately "85% Premium Animal Ingredients", with no asterisk and no footnote anywhere on the page. The figure is the right one for Original. What the Indian page omits is the word approximate and the fact that the figure is measured before cooking.

The brand defines free-run in a footnote, and the Indian listings use the term without it. The UK page carries a second footnote: "**Our free-run chickens and turkeys are not housed in cages and are able to move in a barn without outdoor access". That is an unusually candid definition, because the natural reading of free-run is a bird that goes outside, and the footnote says it does not. Zigly and Heads Up For Tails both use "free-run" on their Orijen pages with no definition attached Heads Up For Tails.

What the panel actually says, for the Original recipe. The UK page lists "Fresh chicken (25%), raw turkey (8%), fresh chicken giblets (liver, heart) (7%), raw whole herring (6%), raw whole hake (5%)" among the leading ingredients, and gives calories as "39% from protein, 19% from carbohydrates, and 42% from fat";. Those per-ingredient percentages are the kind of disclosure almost nothing else in this research publishes, and they are a better guide to the recipe than the headline figure is.

The same 11.4 kg bag costs Rs 11,049 or Rs 13,999

Five Indian sellers price Orijen Original 11.4 kg between Rs 11,049 and Rs 13,999, a spread of 26.7 percent, and the dearest figure is the one the importer's own shop charges.

The five, cheapest first. Petsworld Rs 11,049, Zigly Rs 13,579, then Supertails, Heads Up For Tails and DogKart all at Rs 13,999 Zigly, the shop's own Shopify product data… Supertails, the shop's own Shopify product… Heads Up For Tails DogKart, the shop's own Shopify product…. That is Rs 969.21 to Rs 1,227.98 per kilogram. The gap between the cheapest and the dearest is Rs 2,950 on one bag, and both were in stock when read.

The importer's shop sets the number everyone else discounts from. DogKart's price is Rs 13,999, and so is the reference price Supertails and Zigly display beside their own. Across the whole range DogKart's figures match Supertails to the rupee: 340 g at Rs 749, 2 kg at Rs 3,599, 6 kg at Rs 7,999, 11.4 kg at Rs 13,999, 17 kg at Rs 17,999, and on the cat side 1.8 kg at Rs 3,999, 5.4 kg at Rs 8,499 and 17 kg at Rs 19,999 Supertails, the shop's own Shopify product…. DogKart displays no reference price of its own, so it shows no discount on anything.

The sellers still do not agree what the maximum retail price is. For this one bag Petsworld shows Rs 12,999 while Zigly and Supertails show Rs 13,999 Zigly, the shop's own Shopify product data…. A maximum retail price is a single figure printed on a pack, so two values for one pack means at least one displayed reference is stale or wrong, and every "percent off" a buyer sees is computed from it. This directory's August research found the same two figures on the same bag, so the disagreement has persisted at least seven weeks.

Buying small is the expensive mistake on this brand. The 340 g trial pack is Rs 749 at Supertails and DogKart, which is Rs 2,202.94 per kilogram, against Rs 1,058.76 for the same seller's 17 kg bag. The small pack costs 108.1 percent more per kilogram, so a buyer who samples before committing pays slightly over double.

A multipack that is not a deal. Supertails lists an Orijen Puppy variant as "12kg (2x6kg)" at Rs 15,998, which is exactly twice its own 6 kg price of Rs 7,999 and works out at the identical Rs 1,333.17 per kilogram. Buying the pair saves nothing, which is worth knowing because the format implies otherwise. The same pattern appears on Felix and Pro Plan.

The cat range is priced the same way and spreads nearly as wide. Orijen Original cat food in 17 kg runs Rs 16,149 at Petsworld, Rs 18,429 at Zigly and Rs 19,999 at Supertails and DogKart, which is Rs 949.94 to Rs 1,176.41 per kilogram, a spread of 23.8 percent Zigly, the shop's own Shopify product data…. Zigly also carries two separate listings for what both describe as 1.8 kg Orijen cat food, at Rs 3,879 and at Rs 2,799, a difference of 38.6 percent within one shop, with the cheaper of the two out of stock.

For scale against the rest of this directory. The cheapest verified Orijen Original works out at Rs 969.21 per kilogram. Kennel Kitchen's kibble, the cheapest dry dog food in this research, is Rs 179.67 per kilogram. Orijen costs 5.4 times as much per kilogram, and both are dry food, so that comparison is a fair one in a way that comparing either with a wet pouch is not.

One real recall, in Australia, caused by the border and not the recipe

Champion recalled all Orijen cat food sold in Australia in November 2008 after gamma irradiation applied under Australian import rules was linked to neurological damage in cats, and no Orijen entry appears on the US FDA register today.

What happened, from a parliamentary source rather than a register. This recall is documented by an Australian Senate committee inquiry into pet food safety, not from the ACCC product recall register, which this project has not been able to read on any attempt. The committee records that "Following these incidents, Champion Petfoods announced a voluntary recall of all Orijen brand cat food sold in Australia", that the company "stated that the problem appeared to be restricted to Australia", and that "According to Champion Petfoods, Australia is the only country that requires the irradiation treatment of its Orijen brand cat foods". A veterinary account reports that a University of Sydney veterinary neurologist reported the association in November 2008, and that Australian quarantine authorities suspended irradiation of imported cat food in June 2009.

A number this page does not print. Trade press reports a figure for how many cats were affected. The Senate chapter and the veterinary account as read do not confirm a count, and a single trade-press number behind a figure of that gravity is not enough, so the incident is published without one.

Why it is here at all, stated honestly. India has not been shown to require irradiation of imported pet food, the episode was market-specific and is seventeen years old, and it has no established bearing on a bag bought in India today. It is on this page because it is the only established recall in the brand's history, because it is the sharpest illustration of why how an imported food is handled between the plant and the shelf is a live question, and because the brand sells cat food in India now.

The US register, searched today with a control that fires. The US FDA Animal and Veterinary recalls listing returns no rows for orijen and none for champion petfoods. The identical query on the same day returns "Showing 1 to 2 of 2 entries" for pedigree, both rows naming Mars Petcare US, Inc., dated 2 July 2026 and 18 May 2024. The control matters doubly here, because Pedigree and Orijen now share an owner, so the register demonstrably indexes this brand's own corporate parent.

The register's window, which bounds what that nil can mean. The FDA listing holds 63 entries in total and links older material to a separate archive rather than listing it, and the oldest row surfaced by the control is from May 2024. The 2008 Australian recall is itself proof that events sit outside whatever window the FDA listing currently covers. So the publishable statement is narrow: no Orijen recall appears in the FDA listing as it stands today, and that listing is a United States window rather than a history of the brand.

Not a recall, and FDA published it, so it goes here too. Orijen was named in 12 reports and Acana in 67 in the FDA's investigation into a possible link between certain diets and canine dilated cardiomyopathy, covering 524 reports received between January 2014 and April 2019. FDA's own closing statement is the other half and this page will not print one without the other: "While adverse event numbers can be a potential signal of an issue with an FDA regulated product, by themselves, they do not supply sufficient data to establish a causal relationship with reported product(s)." Report volume also tracks publicity. Champion has published its own response.

The lawsuits Google is asked about. "What is the lawsuit against Orijen?" appears in the People Also Ask box for the origin query, so this page answers it. There were two distinct waves. Class actions from 2018 alleging heavy metals and BPA in Acana and Orijen were dismissed by the courts. Separately, two advocacy groups sued in the summer of 2020 over advertising, and those were resolved with Champion agreeing to clarify its free-run claims and its trout sourcing on packaging and digital advertising Petful, Orijen Lawsuit / Acana Lawsuit. An allegation that is dismissed is not a finding of fact, and a page that listed the claims without their outcomes would leave a false impression.

What Indian law requires of an imported pet food

Orijen enters India under an animal-health import regime administered by the agriculture ministry rather than by the food regulator, and that regime is stricter than anything that applies to a pet food made in India.

Pet food is not legally food in India. The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 defines food for human consumption and excludes animal feed, so the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India sets no compulsory nutritional standard for dog or cat food.

The Indian standard exists, is voluntary, and this brand does not cite it. IS 11968:2019 is the Bureau of Indian Standards specification for extruded pet food and conformity is not compulsory. No BIS, ISI or IS 11968 reference was found on Champion's sites or on any Indian listing read for this page.

The import regime is the one that bites. The Animal Quarantine and Certification Service, under the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, publishes India's import procedures and names the Pet Food Products of Animal Origin (Import into India) Order, with a Sanitary Import Permit required for high-risk products and pet foods listed as item 6, alongside an official health certificate from the country of origin. A United States government guide for exporters sets out the substance: a permit held by the Indian importer, heat treatment to at least 70 degrees Celsius for at least 30 minutes or an approved equivalent, exclusion of ruminant material beyond milk and certain rendered fats, and inspection of the production facility.

This is where the importer question stops being abstract. An authorised importer holds a Sanitary Import Permit and an official health certificate for each consignment. So "is GNV Commodities an authorised importer" and "does this food enter India under the Order" are closer to one question than they look, and both are answerable from documents that exist and that neither the brand nor any seller publishes.

The certifications Champion does publish, which are checkable. Its European FAQ states that the NorthStar kitchen "has achieved the internationally recognized Safe Feed/Safe Food (SFSF) and HACCP certifications" and that "Our NorthStar and New NorthStar Kitchens are also two of very few North American pet food facilities that are European Union certified", and the company's FAQ adds that NorthStar received Safe Quality Food certification and that the DogStar kitchen won a Global Food Safety Initiative award in 2017 Champion Petfoods. None of those is an Indian approval, and whether the plants appear on any Indian approved-establishment list was not established.

No FSSAI licence number appears anywhere. Not on Champion's sites and not on any Indian listing read here. An importer and marketer of pet food in India would be expected to hold a licence, and nothing found suggests otherwise, so this is a disclosure gap rather than a compliance finding. Across every brand in this research the only licence number found on a pack belongs to Henlo.

What we could not establish

The 13 questions below are the ones this page could not answer, and they are published rather than left out. Each one names what was looked for, where, why it could not be settled, and the test that would show it if the answer were there.

Whether GNV Commodities is an authorised Champion or Mars importer

A Champion or Mars statement naming an Indian distributor, or an importer agreement

Looked in: Champion's Contact page, which offers "Distributor Inquiries" and whose site-wide "Distributors Contact" link returns HTTP 404, Champion's About and FAQ pages and the Orijen market sites, none of which names any Indian distributor, the company's own LinkedIn description, which calls it a pan-India pet supplies distributor but is its own account of itself

Why it could not be settled: This is the central open question on the brand and it must not be answered by inference in either direction. Four mainstream retailers stocking the product does not establish authorisation, and a manufacturer's silence does not establish its absence. The distinction decides whether a buyer with a problem reaches an accountable chain or a parallel one.

What would show otherwise: A Champion or Mars page naming its Indian distributor would settle this question immediately.

Whether Orijen consignments enter India under a Sanitary Import Permit

A permit number, an import licence, or a consignment health certificate

Looked in: the Animal Quarantine and Certification Service procedures page, which names the Order and the permit requirement without publishing a permit register, all five Indian listings read, none of which references an import permit, Champion's own sites, which publish no Indian regulatory information

Why it could not be settled: The regime requires the Indian importer to hold a permit and an official health certificate from the country of origin for each consignment. Whether these consignments have them is not established, and no public register was located that would show it. The requirement is established; its application here is not.

What would show otherwise: A permit number on an import document, or an entry on a published permit register, would close it.

Whether the Acheson or Auburn plants hold the Indian approvals the regime requires

An entry for either Champion kitchen on an Indian approved-establishment list

Looked in: the exporter guidance, which states that the production facility must be inspected, the Animal Quarantine and Certification Service procedures page, which publishes no plant register

Why it could not be settled: Champion publishes several real certifications for these kitchens, including Safe Feed/Safe Food, HACCP, Safe Quality Food and European Union certification. None of those is an Indian approval, and no Indian approved-establishment list was located or searched for this page.

What would show otherwise: The Indian department's approved-establishment list, searched for either plant, would close it.

Whether any FSSAI licence number appears on an Orijen pack or listing

A licence number on the brand's sites or any Indian retail listing

Looked in: Champion's own pages and the Orijen market sites, the Supertails, Heads Up For Tails, Zigly, Petsworld and DogKart listings read here

Why it could not be settled: An importer and marketer of pet food in India would be expected to hold a licence, and nothing found suggests otherwise. What is established is only that none of the pages read publishes a number, so a reader cannot check it against the regulator's own register. The regulator's licence search was not queried for this page.

What would show otherwise: A licence number printed on a pack, or a FoSCoS register entry for the importer, would close it.

Which Alberta town the Canadian kitchen is actually in

A current, unambiguous statement of the plant's location

Looked in: Champion's own FAQ, which says "In December 2019, we opened our new NorthStar kitchen, in Acheson, Alberta", Google's AI Overview, which says "the NorthStar Kitchen in Morinville, Alberta", a Facebook post on page one, which also says Morinville

Why it could not be settled: The company's own page names Acheson and an answer engine names Morinville, with no source given for the latter. A manufacturer's own page outranks an answer engine on the location of its own plant, so this page says Acheson. Whether the company operates sites at both towns, or whether one reference is simply wrong, is not established.

What would show otherwise: A current company page or a facility registration naming the town would settle it.

Which of Champion's two kitchens makes the bags sold in India

A plant identification on the Indian pack, or a routing statement from the company

Looked in: the Indian listings, which declare Canada and name the Edmonton corporate address rather than a plant, Champion's FAQ, which names both kitchens without saying which serves which market, Google's AI Overview, which claims the Canadian kitchen serves "Canada, Europe, and parts of Asia" and cites nothing

Why it could not be settled: Canada on the label points to the Alberta kitchen and that is the obvious reading, but the listings name a corporate address rather than a plant, and the only statement found that routes Asia to Canada is an unsourced AI Overview. The obvious reading is not published as a fact.

What would show otherwise: A plant code on a pack, or a company statement routing markets to kitchens, would close it.

Whether the Indian bags carry the same recipe percentages as the UK pages state

A guaranteed analysis or ingredient panel on an Indian pack

Looked in: the UK Original page, which gives fresh chicken 25 percent, raw turkey 8 percent, fresh chicken giblets 7 percent, raw whole herring 6 percent and raw whole hake 5 percent, and calories as 39 percent protein, 19 percent carbohydrate and 42 percent fat, the Indian listings, which repeat a headline percentage without a panel

Why it could not be settled: The UK figures are a real published panel for the same named recipe, and they describe the product in that market. Champion makes Orijen in two countries, so a panel from one market is not automatically the composition of a bag imported into India. They are cited to show the level of disclosure that exists elsewhere and is missing here.

What would show otherwise: The panel printed on an Indian bag, or an Indian listing reproducing it, would establish it.

How many cats were affected in the 2008 Australian episode

A count from the Senate report body or the veterinary literature

Looked in: the Senate committee chapter, which records the recall and the irradiation finding without a confirmed count in the text read, the veterinary account, which reports the association without a count, trade press, which reports a figure that no primary source read here confirms

Why it could not be settled: A single trade-press number is not enough to carry a figure of this gravity, and a count attached to a seventeen-year-old recall would be repeated far beyond this page. The episode is published in full without one.

What would show otherwise: A count in the Senate report body or in a veterinary journal would allow one.

What the Australian and European registers hold for this brand

A searchable recall register for the markets outside the United States

Looked in: the Australian product safety recall register, which this project has found returns HTTP 403 to every term including its own controls, the EU RASFF portal, which returns a JavaScript shell with no readable terms

Why it could not be settled: The 2008 recall is documented from a parliamentary source rather than from a register, and the registers that would carry Australian or European entries were not readable. So this page states an FDA nil with its jurisdiction named, and does not claim a clean register anywhere else.

What would show otherwise: The Australian or RASFF register answering a control term would make a search meaningful.

Whether Mars has changed the Orijen recipes since February 2023

A before-and-after ingredient comparison, or a company statement

Looked in: Mars's completion announcement, which says Champion "will operate as an independent business unit within Mars Pet Nutrition", Champion's current pages, which publish panels without change histories

Why it could not be settled: Three and a half years after an acquisition, whether the recipe changed is the question a long-standing buyer most wants answered, and it is checkable in principle against archived ingredient panels. It was not checked for this page, and the independent-business-unit statement is an intention rather than evidence about the panels.

What would show otherwise: Archived ingredient panels from before and after February 2023, compared, would answer it.

Why one seller shows a reference price far below its own selling price

A correction, or an explanation of the Rs 649 figure

Looked in: Petsworld's Orijen Puppy 11.4 kg listing, selling at Rs 12,499 against a compare-at figure of Rs 649, the same seller's other Orijen rows, which carry coherent reference prices around Rs 12,999 to Rs 16,999

Why it could not be settled: Nothing can be discounted to nineteen times its reference price, so the figure is a data fault rather than a pricing claim. The coherent references on the same seller's other rows show the fault is specific to this listing. No figure from that row is used on this page.

What would show otherwise: The listing read again after correction, or a statement from the seller, would resolve it.

Which maximum retail price is the real one for the 11.4 kg bag

The MRP printed on the pack

Looked in: Petsworld, which displays Rs 12,999, Zigly and Supertails, which display Rs 13,999, Heads Up For Tails and DogKart, which display no reference price at all

Why it could not be settled: A maximum retail price is one printed figure, so two displayed values for one pack means at least one is stale or invented, and the discount percentage a buyer sees is computed from it. The same two figures appeared in this project's August research, so the disagreement is not a momentary glitch. No discount percentage is quoted anywhere on this page.

What would show otherwise: A photograph of the printed MRP on a current pack would settle it.

The per-100-gram rate one seller quotes in its own marketing copy

The claim read from the page rather than from a search listing

Looked in: a search listing for the Supertails Orijen collection, which displays "At Rs 99/100g for Orijen original dog food in the 17kg format", the same seller's own variant data, which prices the 17 kg bag at Rs 17,999, or Rs 105.88 per 100 g

Why it could not be settled: Those two figures differ by about 6.5 percent, which would be a real finding about a seller's copy contradicting its own price. The lower figure was read from a search listing and not from the page it is attributed to, and a search snippet is never treated as a price on this site, so it is recorded here rather than published.

What would show otherwise: The collection page read directly, with the claim located in its markup, would confirm or drop it.