The Purina Pet Food plant in Denver Colorado is facing another lawsuit. The new lawsuit claims this Purina plant’s “cooking process produces highly odiferous emissions.” And the lawsuit claims Purina “has failed to install, maintain, operate, develop, and/or implement adequate odor mitigating strategies, processes, technology, and equipment to control its odorous emissions from the Facility and prevent those odors and emissions from invading the homes and properties of Plaintiffs.”
One of the class lawsuit members states: “The smell causes headaches and nausea, it gets in the house and can also smell clothes of the smell of throw up.” Another Plaintiff states: “It’s like someone barfed in your back yard and then it baked in the sun and then you put a fan on the smell to keep it circulating.”
This Purina plant has been fined twice by Denver authorities for “repeated emissions of noxious odors”; once in 2021 and again in 2024.
In 2023, testing by Denver authorities found “more than double the regulatory threshold for odorous emissions.”
The Denver Purina plant produces dry pet food; “Dog Chow, Cat Chow, Kit n Kaboodle, Alpo, Beneful, Purina ONE Beyond, Purina ONE, and Pro Plan.”
Click Here to read the lawsuit.
From a 2018 interview with a Purina executive regarding the smell at the plant – the employee stated: “Air and heat goes through it, so that’s the smell,” Rotunno said. “If you made dog treats at home, it’s the same way you’d be able to smell those.”
Personal opinion: I’ve cooked a lot of pet food in my home…never once did it smell like vomit baked in the sun.
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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