Oma’s Pride of Avon, Connecticut — the brand made by Miller Foods, Inc. — is recalling one lot of Woof Complete Canine Chicken Recipe in the 6-pound bag because it is contaminated with Salmonella. FDA posted the company’s announcement today.
The recalled lot is BB012729: 639 bags, item F-WOOFC-6, UPC 8 7938400145 9, manufactured January 27, 2026, with a best-by date of January 27, 2029. Read that last date twice. This is frozen raw dog food, sold in a 6-pound stand-up pouch holding twelve individually wrapped, vacuum-sealed 8-ounce portions, and the label invites a consumer to keep it in the freezer for another two and a half years. It went to retail and wholesale accounts and directly to consumers through online orders, shipped frozen, in Arizona, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The company says no other Oma’s Pride products, sizes or lots are affected.
Notice the distance between FDA’s headline and the company’s own sentence. The headline on the FDA page says “Possible Salmonella Health Risk.” The announcement underneath it says the product is contaminated with Salmonella. Not possible. Is. Somebody cultured this food and grew the bug, and the headline should say so, because a pet owner scrolling a recall list makes a decision in about four seconds.
The dogs are only half of it. The people who get hurt in raw pet food cases are very often the ones who never ate a bite — the owner who thaws the portion, scoops the bowl, rinses it in the kitchen sink, wipes the counter with a sponge and then makes a sandwich. Salmonella does not care that the package said “dog.” It produces nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, cramps and fever, and in a minority of people it goes further — bloodstream and arterial infections, endocarditis, reactive arthritis that can last for years. The children in the house are the ones on the floor with the dog, and an infected dog that never looks sick a day in its life can shed the organism for weeks.
None of this is new to FDA. The agency’s own Center for Veterinary Medicine screened more than a thousand pet food samples over two years and found raw pet food far more likely than any other kind to carry Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes — 38 of 196 raw samples positive for one or both. FDA’s advice ever since has been blunt: the single best way to avoid these infections is not to feed a raw diet. Freezing is not a kill step. It is a pause button.
Give Oma’s Pride credit where it is due. Five days ago the Justice Department, on FDA’s behalf, walked into federal court in Seattle and asked for a permanent injunction against Arrow Reliance, Inc., d/b/a Darwin’s Natural Pet Products, and its owner — a company that, according to the government’s complaint, turned down FDA recall requests in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 while twelve of the agency’s eighteen most recent samples came back positive for pathogens, and whose food matched, genome to genome, the E. coli O157:H7 that put a four-year-old boy in the hospital. Against that, a company that finds a positive on one lot and pulls 639 bags the same week is doing what the system is supposed to do.
The harder question is the one a recall never answers. Testing finds what it happens to find. A positive on one lot from one production day is a sample result, not a boundary, and the company says only that it is conducting further investigation to better understand this finding. What ran before it on that line, and after? What did the environmental swabs show? A raw product with no kill step is protected by nothing but the cleanliness of the incoming meat and the plant around it, and when the answer comes back positive, the honest reading is that the controls did not hold that day.
If you have this bag, stop feeding it now. Do not donate it, do not sell it, do not scoop out one more meal. Bag it, throw it away, and then wash and sanitize the bowl, the scoop, the container, the counter and your hands. Oma’s Pride is taking calls at 1-800-678-OMAS, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern, and at hello@omaspride.com, and it is offering refunds. If someone in your house has been sick, or your dog has, call the doctor or the veterinarian and say the words “raw pet food” out loud. That sentence is what turns a stool culture into a case, and a case into a recall that catches the next 639 bags.
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