Paw Multiverse recall record
Pet food recall statistics
Counted live from the Paw Multiverse recall record on 13 November 2026: every pet food and pet product recall published by five official registers in four countries. The numbers update by themselves each time a register publishes.
Key figures
- 184 pet food and pet product recalls are on record from the US, UK, Canada and France, 25 of them published in the last 12 months.
- The most common cause is salmonella: 85 recalls, 46% of the total.
- France accounts for 53% of the recalls we hold.
- 24 of 116 businesses named on the record have had more than one recall.
- No pet food notice in the record has been taken down by its authority so far. If one is, we keep it, marked as removed.
Cite as: Paw Multiverse recall record, pawmultiverse.com/pet-food-recalls/statistics/, accessed 13 November 2026. CC BY 4.0.
At a glance
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Pet food and pet product recalls held | 184 |
| Published in the last 12 months | 25 |
| Businesses named | 116 |
| Businesses with more than one recall | 24 |
| Taken down by the authority since, kept here | 0 |
By country
| Country | Recalls |
|---|---|
| France | 97 (53%) |
| United States | 41 (22%) |
| United Kingdom | 28 (15%) |
| Canada | 18 (10%) |
By year (year the authority published the notice)
| Year | US | GB | CA | FR | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 20 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 39 |
| 2024 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 47 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 18 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| 2021 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 2018 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
By cause, all years
| Cause | Recalls |
|---|---|
| Salmonella | 85 (46%) |
| Other or not stated | 58 (32%) |
| Foreign material (plastic, metal, glass) | 13 (7%) |
| Wrong vitamin or mineral levels | 9 (5%) |
| Labelling, undeclared or unauthorised ingredients | 7 (4%) |
| Listeria | 5 (3%) |
| Quality or safety concern | 4 (2%) |
| Aflatoxin or mould toxins | 1 (1%) |
| E. coli | 1 (1%) |
| Mould | 1 (1%) |
By cause, last 12 months
| Cause | Recalls |
|---|---|
| Other or not stated | 7 |
| Salmonella | 7 |
| Foreign material (plastic, metal, glass) | 5 |
| Wrong vitamin or mineral levels | 3 |
| Listeria | 2 |
| Labelling, undeclared or unauthorised ingredients | 1 |
Businesses with the most recalls on record
Everything the registers list (not only pets)
| Kind of product | Notices |
|---|---|
| Pet food | 183 |
| Veterinary medicine | 17 |
| Livestock feed | 7 |
| Not classified | 5 |
| Multiple product types | 3 |
| Human medicine | 2 |
| Pet product | 1 |
How these numbers are made
We read five official registers on a schedule: the US FDA (two lists), the UK Food Standards Agency, Canada's recalls and safety alerts, and France's RappelConso. Every notice is kept with each later version, including notices an authority later removes. We have read them continuously since September 2026; the record also holds the older notices they still listed then, back to 2012, so early years are less complete than recent ones.
Counts above are pet food and pet products only. The US FDA animal register also lists livestock feed and veterinary medicines: those are counted in the last table, not in the pet figures. The cause is sorted from the reason each notice gives; "Other or not stated" means the notice gave no reason we could sort. One recall can cover many products; we count notices, not products.
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