Who makes it
Who makes Pure Balance dog food?
multiple independent secondary review sites (Hepper, Canine Journal, Furry Folly, Healthy Homemade Dog Treats) consistently attribute Pure Balance to Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, LLC. Ainsworth's private-label / co-manufacturing business AND its Meadville, PA plant transferred to Post Holdings in the April 2023 J.M. Smucker divestiture, so IF Pure Balance is still made by that operation its current maker is Post Holdings, not Smucker (the review blogs pre-date the 2023 transition and still say 'Smucker'). CAVEATS keeping this at 'partial' not 'supported': (1) the Ainsworth attribution itself rests only on secondary review sites, never a first-party Walmart/maker statement or a recall naming Pure Balance's maker (Pure Balance has no recorded recall to anchor it); (2) Walmart private-label lines commonly split across co-packers and change over time; (3) one unreliable AI summary also floated Midwestern Pet Foods (Monmouth, IL) for some dry lines - UNCORROBORATED, not assigned. Treat the maker link as circumstantial until a first-party source or a maker-naming recall confirms it.
Confidence in this attribution: partial. A co-packer's recall history and quality record belong to every brand it makes, so Pure Balance's safety profile is Post Consumer Brands (Pet Food division)'s.