Manufacturer record

Open Farm, Inc.

2 plants

Credibility scored on the 20-point WSAVA tier, High confidence. An unverified field scores at half credit, never zero. How this feeds the grade →

Brands they own

Open Farm

Recall history

Recall events in the last 10 years weigh most; older events decay. Repeat events in the 10-year window: 0.

The detail

IDENTITY/OWNERSHIP: Founder-led and majority founder-controlled. Founded 2013/2014 in Toronto by Jacqueline Prehogan (CPA) and husband Isaac Langleben (lawyer, ex-private-equity); third co-founder Derek Beigleman has departed. In Jan 2021 Open Farm took a MINORITY growth investment led by General Atlantic (US$65MM+ / C$80MM+, GA's first pet-industry deal), joining existing minority partner Encore Consumer Capital; the founders retain control, so parent_company is null (no controlling parent). MANUFACTURING: Open Farm owns NO plants; it uses co-manufacturers across the US, Canada and Iceland for dry kibble, wet/rustic stews, freeze-dried raw, gently cooked and bone broth. Named dry-food co-packer: Barrett Petfood Innovations (Brainerd + Little Falls, MN). Because production is co-manufactured, QC is partly the co-packer's, though Open Farm layers its own program on top. NUTRITIONIST (staff): Dr. Moran Tal-Gavriel (BSc, DVM, DVSc, Dip. ECVCN) is an IN-HOUSE board-certified veterinary nutritionist (ECVCN is a WSAVA-recognized board) actively involved in formulation, working with PhD companion-animal nutritionists, food scientists and veterinarians; hire covered by PetfoodIndustry. who_formulates = credentialed. SUBSTANTIATION (formulation-only): recipes are formulated to meet AAFCO nutrient profiles; Open Farm does NOT run conventional AAFCO feeding trials, but does internal digestibility, palatability and stool studies and states an at-home feeding-trial program is in development, so this may move toward 'mix' over time. QC (documented): Open Farm publishes lot-specific finished-product PATHOGEN testing results and ingredient-sourcing detail via its consumer-facing Transparency/'trace your food' tool, which is stronger than most; dependency on the co-packer's plant is the caveat. PUBLISHES_RESEARCH (no): internal studies exist but no peer-reviewed publications were found. TRANSPARENCY (answers-publicly): extensive public FAQ answers the WSAVA 'will they tell you' questions, names the board-certified nutritionist, publishes lot-level pathogen testing and offers a public ingredient-traceability tool; the one gap is that Open Farm does NOT publicly name its co-manufacturers (Barrett is known via trade press, not disclosed by Open Farm).

Sources

• https://openfarmpet.com/pages/faq
• https://openfarmpet.com/pages/about-us
• https://modernfarmer.com/2016/09/pet-food/
• https://barrettpetfood.com/
• https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210112005246/en/Open-Farm-Receives-$65MM-Minority-Growth-Investment-Led-By-General-Atlantic
• https://www.petfoodprocessing.net/articles/14386-open-farm-raises-65-million-in-private-equity-funding
• https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/experience/general-atlantic-completes-an-equity-investment-in-pet-food-company-open-farm
• https://www.ey.com/en_ca/newsroom/2025/10/co-founders-of-open-farm-named-ey-entrepreneur-of-the-year-2025-ontario
• https://www.petfoodindustry.com/news-newsletters/pet-food-news/news/15747500/open-farm-adds-veterinary-nutritionist-to-support-product-development
• https://openfarmpet.com/our-standards/our-partners
• https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recalling_firm:%22open+farm%22&limit=50
• https://truthaboutpetfood.com/open-farm-pet-food-withdrawal/
• https://blog.thefishandbone.com/2024/voluntary-product-removal-open-farm-12-23-24/
• https://dogtime.com/reference/145497-open-farm-dog-food-recall-2024-when-last-recalled
• https://www.petproductnews.com/news/new-open-farm-app-traces-company-s-pet-food-ingredients/article_abf63643-2b48-53a1-95d5-910df68cbe66.html
• https://certifiedhumane.org/
• https://globalanimalpartnership.org/

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