Dog and cat food brand
Farmina N&D dog food and cat food in India
Farmina is the brand in this research that answers the question the others dodge. Five Indian sellers, the manufacturer's own distributor page and its statutory address block all agree on where the food comes from and who brings it in. What the brand does not tell you is which of its four factories filled your bag, even though it says the code is printed on it.
Quick answer
Farmina dog food sold in India is made in Italy, at Nola near Naples, by Russo Mangimi S.p.A., and imported by GOA Medicos Private Limited of Gurugram. Five Indian sellers and Farmina's own distributor page agree on both, which no other imported brand in this research manages. A 12 kg bag of N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry runs from Rs 9,341 to Rs 11,871 depending on the shop.
At a glance
The table below is what can be established about this brand from primary records, and what cannot. Every row reading "Not established" is written up in full at the foot of the page, with what was looked for and where.
| Record | What the primary sources show |
|---|---|
| Brand | Farmina N&D |
| Also sold as | Farmina, N&D, Natural & Delicious, Russo Mangimi, Matisse, Cibau |
| Species | Dog and cat |
| Corporate owner | Russo Mangimi S.p.A., held through Farmina Pet Foods Holding B.V. |
| Indian entity | GOA Medicos Private Limited (CIN U51397HR1996PTC133746) |
| FSSAI licence | Not established, see below |
| Retailer's own brand | No |
Where it is made
Origin is recorded per product, not per brand, because it varies per product. The evidence column says how strong each row is: a pack in hand outranks a filing, and a marketplace listing is the weakest thing here that is still evidence.
| Product or line | Made in | Evidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry and the Supertails Farmina range generally | Italy, made by Russo Mangimi S.p.A. at Nola, Napoli | Retailer listing (weak) | "Country of Origin: Italy" with "Name & Address of Manufacturer: N&D, Russo Mangimi Spa Farmina Pet Foods Italia, Via Bosconfangone, Nola, Napoli, Italia +39 081 512 2135", and both "Imported by" and "Marketed by" giving GOA Medicos Private Limited at EMAAR Digital Greens, Sector 61, Gurugram, Haryana 122002. The Nola address matches the registered address in Farmina's own statutory terms block, which is what lifts this above an ordinary retailer transcription. |
| N&D across the Heads Up For Tails, Zigly, Petsworld and Petsy listings | Italy, on four further independent sellers | Retailer listing (weak) | All four declare Italy, and Heads Up For Tails, Zigly and Petsy each name GOA Medicos Private Limited as importer or as importer and marketer. Five sellers agreeing on one country with a matching manufacturer address is the most consistent origin evidence in this research; by comparison the Pedigree work found four sellers giving four different countries for one brand name. |
| Farmina's own account of where it manufactures | Nola in Italy, Belgrade in Serbia and Sao Paulo in Brazil, with a fourth factory unnamed | Brand's own site | "Farmina produces its pet food in four proprietary factories worldwide, located in Nola (Italy), Belgrade (Serbia), and Sao Paulo (Brazil). Each production facility has its unique code, which is printed on the product label, along with the expiration date." The count and the list disagree, and the omitted plant is almost certainly Reidsville, North Carolina, which a US enforcement record proves makes N&D. The plant code is the answer to which factory filled a given bag, and the code-to-factory mapping is not published. |
| N&D Tropical Selection 22 lb, the recalled US lot | Reidsville, North Carolina, made by Farmina Pet Food USA LLC | Regulator record | FDA enforcement report V-0119-2026 records the recalling firm as Farmina Pet Food USA LLC and the product description as "Manufactured by: Famina Pet Food USA, LLC, Reidsville, North Carolina", misspelling the company in one field and spelling it correctly in another. This is the independent proof that a fourth Farmina plant exists and makes N&D, which the company's own help page omits. The recalled product was shipped only to Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee and was not sold in India. |
| The Italian operating company, from its own statutory block | Via Nazionale delle Puglie, 80035 Nola (NA), Italy | Company filing | Farmina's India terms page carries the statutory address and VAT number 01239651217 for Russo Mangimi S.p.A. at Nola, with a paid-up share capital figure. A second terms page on the same site names Farmina Pet Foods Holding B.V. of Amsterdam and is governed by Netherlands law. So the Italian family company is held through a Dutch holding company, which is ordinary structuring and is recorded because the brand's positioning is wholly Italian. |
| The Indian importer, from the register and from the brand's own page | Not applicable to origin; this row establishes who is answerable in India | Regulator record | GOA Medicos Private Limited, CIN U51397HR1996PTC133746, incorporated 11 September 1996, Active, Registrar of Companies Haryana, authorised and paid-up capital Rs 20,000,000 each, last AGM 30 September 2025 and last balance sheet recorded as filed 31 March 2025, activity code 5139 for wholesale trade. Farmina names this company itself, on its own distributor page, which no other imported brand in this research does. Its India privacy policy, however, gives the company's superseded Delhi CIN rather than the current Haryana one. |
What it costs in India
Each row is one seller's listed price for one pack size on one date, converted to a price per kilogram so the pack sizes compare. Indian marketplace pricing moves, so a single listing is not a price and none of these is quoted on its own.
| Product | Pack | Price | Per kg | Seller | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg | 12.0 kg | Rs 9341.0 | Rs 778 | Petsworld | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg | 12.0 kg | Rs 10792.0 | Rs 899 | Supertails | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg | 12.0 kg | Rs 11062.0 | Rs 922 | Heads Up For Tails | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg | 12.0 kg | Rs 11871.0 | Rs 989 | Zigly | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg | 12.0 kg | Rs 11871.0 | Rs 989 | Petsy | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 2.5 kg | 2.5 kg | Rs 2507.0 | Rs 1003 | Petsworld | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 2.5 kg | 2.5 kg | Rs 3302.0 | Rs 1321 | Heads Up For Tails | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg | 10.0 kg | Rs 6672.0 | Rs 667 | Petsworld | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg | 10.0 kg | Rs 6908.0 | Rs 691 | Zigly | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg | 10.0 kg | Rs 7093.0 | Rs 709 | Heads Up For Tails | 2026-10-13 |
| Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg | 10.0 kg | Rs 7622.0 | Rs 762 | Supertails | 2026-10-13 |
- Petsworld, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg. Cheapest of the five by Rs 1,451, and the cheapest verified Farmina rate per kilogram in India. This seller also lists a separate "12+3 Kg" promotional pack, which is a bundle rather than a pack size and is excluded from this comparison.
- Supertails, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg. 15.5 percent above Petsworld. This seller carries 144 Farmina products and also lists "12kg+100g Treat" and "7kg+60g Treat" variants, whose bundled treat must be kept out of any per-kilogram figure for the food.
- Heads Up For Tails, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg. 18.4 percent above Petsworld. This seller's statutory block names GOA Medicos Private Limited as Imported & Marketed by, matching Farmina's own distributor page.
- Zigly, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg. Dearest of the five, 27.1 percent above Petsworld, and out of stock on this variant when read. Identical to the rupee to Petsy's price for the same bag, which is recorded rather than explained.
- Petsy, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 12 kg. The same Rs 11,871 as Zigly. This seller's page declares Country of Origin Italy and names Goa Medicos Private Limited as importer, and carries two AAFCO references that Farmina's own India pages do not make.
- Petsworld, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 2.5 kg. At the same seller the small bag costs 28.8 percent more per kilogram than the 12 kg, so trying the food in a small pack before committing has a real cost.
- Heads Up For Tails, Farmina N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry, adult medium and maxi, 2.5 kg. Dearest 2.5 kg of the sellers read, 31.7 percent above Petsworld on the same pack, and 69.7 percent more per kilogram than Petsworld's 12 kg bag.
- Petsworld, Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg. Matisse is Farmina's lower-priced line and this is the cheapest rate per kilogram found for the brand in India on any pack.
- Zigly, Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg. Out of stock when read. The cat range spreads 14.2 percent across four sellers, the narrowest spread on this brand.
- Heads Up For Tails, Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg. The same seller also lists a "1.5kg+5kg Scoopy Litter" style bundle elsewhere in the range; bundling heavy cat litter with food is the shape that most distorts a per-kilogram figure, and all such rows are excluded here.
- Supertails, Farmina Matisse Kitten dry cat food, 10 kg. 14.2 percent above Petsworld for the same bag, the dearest of the four carrying it.
Recall checks
Each register below was searched for this brand, and then searched again for something comparable to prove it answers at all. A register that returns nothing for both has cleared nothing. India maintains no pet food recall register, so no row here can stand in for one.
| Register | Hits for this brand | Control | What a nil result is worth here | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US FDA Animal & Veterinary recalls | 1 | 2 for the Animal & Veterinary listing searched for pedigree by the identical method, which returns "Showing 1 to 2 of 2 entries", both rows naming Mars Petcare US, Inc. | Meaningful but window-bounded to about three years | 2026-10-13 |
| openFDA enforcement API | 0 | 2 for product_description:"dog food", the identical method on the same day | Nothing: the API does not index animal food | 2026-10-13 |
This is a hit rather than a nil, and the jurisdiction still has to be read before the result. The recall is real, it is FDA's own record, and it concerns product made by the US subsidiary at Reidsville, North Carolina and shipped, in FDA's own words, only to Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. None of it was sold in India, where the product is made in Italy. It is a Class III mislabelling, the lowest hazard tier, for a bag whose ingredient panel listed lamb while the front listed salmon, and the status now reads Terminated. The safety signal is recorded as false because a labelling mismatch on a US lot is not a safety finding about the Italian-made product an Indian buyer gets, but the recall is published in full because omitting a brand's recall is not permitted here. The registers with jurisdiction over the plant that makes the Indian product, the EU RASFF system and the Italian authorities, were not readable and are recorded in what is not established.
This nil is published only to record that the endpoint was queried, and it is demonstrably wrong here, which makes it the cleanest illustration in this research of why the endpoint is not used. Farmina has a real, FDA-issued recall of an animal food, V-0119-2026, and the openFDA food enforcement endpoint returns nothing for it. Tested the same day against known positives, 0 of 7 firms with documented pet food recalls return any row from it. The register that does carry animal food recalls is FDA's own Animal & Veterinary listing and the iRES enforcement reports, which is where the recall above was read. An absence from this endpoint means nothing about any pet food brand.
An Italian family company, with an English name and a Dutch holding
Farmina is made by Russo Mangimi S.p.A. of Nola near Naples, owned by the Russo family rather than a conglomerate, held through a Dutch holding company, and carrying a brand name its own history page says came from an English firm.
The operating company, from its own statutory block. Farmina's India terms page gives "Via Nazionale delle Puglie 80035 - Nola (NA) Italy VAT number: 01239651217" with a paid-up share capital figure, for Russo Mangimi S.p.A.. A second terms page on the same India site is governed by Netherlands law and names Farmina Pet Foods Holding B.V. of Amsterdam.
The family, from the company page. Farmina's own history names Francesco Russo, who founded Russo Mangimi as an animal nutrition company in 1965, and Angelo Russo, who moved it into pet food in 1999. No private-equity or trade investor was found, and no shareholder register was read, so family ownership is recorded as what the company says rather than as something independently verified.
That makes Farmina the odd one out here, and it is why this page exists in the set. Pedigree, Whiskas, Sheba, Royal Canin, Orijen and Acana are all Mars. Pro Plan, Felix and Supercoat are all Nestle. Farmina is the one imported brand in this research that belongs to neither, and a buyer who wants an alternative to the two multinationals is choosing it for that reason. Holding the Italian company through a Dutch B.V. is entirely ordinary corporate structuring and is not an accusation; it is recorded because the picture is slightly more complicated than the marketing.
The detail no Indian page carries. The first line of Farmina's own company page is "We are Italians". A few paragraphs later the same page says Angelo Russo "began an ambitious route that drove him to start a collaboration with Farmina, an English company specializing in research and formulating food for dogs and cats, which brought skills, trademarks and know-how". So the company is Italian and the Farmina name and trademarks are, on the company's own account, English in origin. Both are true, and the second is the kind of small checkable fact that is worth more than a slogan.
The scientific partner is named, which is rarer than it should be. Farmina credits the Chair of Animal Nutrition at the University of Naples Federico II across its site. A named institution can be checked and asked; the anonymous panels of experts other brands cite cannot.
The Indian range covers both species and every life stage. On the dog side N&D Ancestral Grain, Pumpkin, Ocean, Quinoa, Tropical Selection and Low Grain lines, plus Cibau and Vet Life; on the cat side N&D Prime, Ocean, Quinoa and Pumpkin, plus Matisse and Vet Life feline, in pack sizes from 300 g to 12 kg. N&D is a range rather than a single product, so comparing "Farmina N&D" with a single recipe from another brand compares a family with a member.
Made in Italy, and the maker will not say which factory
Five Indian sellers declare Italy and name Russo Mangimi at Nola, which is unusually consistent, while Farmina's own help page says it has four factories and lists three.
What the pack says, and how many sellers agree. Supertails prints "Country of Origin: Italy" with "Name & Address of Manufacturer: N&D, Russo Mangimi Spa Farmina Pet Foods Italia, Via Bosconfangone, Nola, Napoli, Italia +39 081 512 2135". Heads Up For Tails, Zigly, Petsworld and Petsy all declare Italy as well Zigly, Farmina Vet Life product page Petsy, Farmina N&D Grain Free Pumpkin Lamb…. The Nola address they print matches the registered address in Farmina's own statutory terms block.
Five sellers agreeing on one country, with a manufacturer address that matches the company's own filing, is the strongest origin evidence in this research. Compare Supercoat, where one page carried "Australia's #1 dry dog food brand" beside "Country of origin: Thailand", or Felix, where the seller that names the real maker puts a Thai company in the importer field. Farmina's label chain is clean.
But the company's own page contradicts itself on how many factories it has. Farmina's help centre, read today, says: "Farmina produces its pet food in four proprietary factories worldwide, located in Nola (Italy), Belgrade (Serbia), and Sao Paulo (Brazil).". It says four and names three, so the fourth is unnamed. The one it omits is almost certainly Reidsville, North Carolina, which a US federal enforcement record independently proves exists and makes N&D. That is an error on the page rather than evidence of concealment, and the consequence for a reader is that the brand's own answer to "where do you make it" is incomplete.
The next sentence on that page is the most useful thing any brand site says in this entire research, and it is also a dead end. "Each production facility has its unique code, which is printed on the product label, along with the expiration date." That means the plant that made the bag in your hand is determinable from the bag itself, which is the question Royal Canin's pages cannot answer at all. The code-to-factory mapping is not published anywhere found, so a buyer holding the bag still cannot decode it. A brand that prints the answer on the pack and withholds the key has gone most of the way and stopped.
Why it matters for this brand specifically. Farmina runs plants on three continents and India's listings declare Italy, but one origin for one recipe is not one origin for a range. A different N&D line, or a later shipment, could come from Belgrade or Sao Paulo, and the plant code is the only thing that settles a given bag. The brand also claims its chicken "comes from Italian chicken reared in open (with GMO Free diet) fresh from slaughter", a claim that reads differently if a given bag was filled in Brazil.
One class of source was deliberately not used here. Searching this brand's India supply chain surfaces trade-data aggregator pages naming Serbian entities as suppliers to an Indian importer, which would point at Serbian rather than Italian origin. This project has already caught that class of page fabricating an India shipment table out of unrelated rows on another brand, so those pages are not evidence and are not cited. It does not follow that Farmina never ships to India from Serbia, only that an aggregator is not evidence that it does. The plant code would settle it.
The one imported brand whose maker names its Indian importer
Farmina's own distributor page returns exactly one result for India, GOA Medicos Private Limited of Gurugram, and the same company appears on all five sellers' listings.
Three independent directions agreeing. Farmina's distributor page returns "found 1 stores: GOA Medicos Private Limited, Tower B, Floor 15, Unit 001, 002 & 003, EMAAR Digital Greens, Golf Course Ext. Road, Sector 61, Gurugram, HARYANA 122002". Supertails prints the same company and address under both "Imported by" and "Marketed by"; Heads Up For Tails under "Imported & Marketed by"; Zigly and Petsy name it too Heads Up For Tails Petsy, Farmina N&D Grain Free Pumpkin Lamb….
That is worth pausing on, because it is the exception. On every other imported brand in this research the manufacturer is silent about who brings its food into India. Champion Petfoods names no Indian distributor at all and its own Distributors Contact link returns a 404, so the company answerable for Orijen and Acana is identifiable only from its competitors' label transcriptions. Farmina publishes the answer itself. A buyer with a complaint about a bag of N&D knows, from the manufacturer, who to call.
Who GOA Medicos is, from the register. CIN U51397HR1996PTC133746, incorporated 11 September 1996, Active, Registrar of Companies Haryana, authorised and paid-up share capital Rs 20,000,000 each, last annual general meeting 30 September 2025, last balance sheet recorded as filed 31 March 2025, activity code 5139 for wholesale trade.
| GOA Medicos, for Farmina | GNV Commodities, for Orijen and Acana | |
|---|---|---|
| Named by the manufacturer | yes, on Farmina's own distributor page | no, not anywhere found |
| Incorporated | 11 September 1996 | 28 October 2013 |
| Paid-up share capital | Rs 2,00,00,000 | Rs 1,00,000 |
| Registry activity class | wholesale trade | activities auxiliary to financial intermediation |
| Last balance sheet recorded as filed | 31 March 2025 | 31 March 2023 |
Read that table fairly. Neither company is accused of anything, both are ordinary private limited companies, and a registry activity code is chosen at incorporation and often never updated. What the comparison shows is how much more a buyer can find out about the Farmina chain than about the Champion one, and that difference comes from the manufacturer's own disclosure rather than from anything the companies did.
One defect, on the page where it matters most. Farmina's India privacy policy names GOA Medicos as the data controller twice, each time as "a company having registered office at 15th FLOOR, DGB-001/002/003/004, Tower B, Emaar Digital Greens, Sector 61, Gurugram, Haryana CIN: U51397DL 1996PTC081819". That CIN is the company's superseded one, from when it was registered in Delhi; the current Haryana CIN does not appear on the page at all. So the brand pairs a Haryana address with a Delhi identifier, and a reader exercising a data-protection right would be quoting a retired number for the entity holding their data.
Nothing says who the importer is on the one page a buyer reads first. The brand's India site carries the distributor lookup, which has to be searched, and the product pages themselves carry no importer. The chain is disclosed but it is not surfaced.
The same 12 kg bag costs Rs 9,341 or Rs 11,871
Five Indian sellers price N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry 12 kg between Rs 9,341 and Rs 11,871, a spread of 27.1 percent, and two of them charge exactly the same figure.
The five, cheapest first. Petsworld Rs 9,341, Supertails Rs 10,792, Heads Up For Tails Rs 11,062, then Zigly and Petsy both at Rs 11,871 Supertails, the shop's own Shopify product… Heads Up For Tails Zigly, the shop's own Shopify product data… Petsy, the shop's own Shopify product data…. That is Rs 778.42 to Rs 989.25 per kilogram, a difference of Rs 2,530 on one bag.
| Seller | Price | Per kg | Against the cheapest | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petsworld | Rs 9,341 | Rs 778.42 | cheapest | in stock |
| Supertails | Rs 10,792 | Rs 899.33 | 15.5 percent more | in stock |
| Heads Up For Tails | Rs 11,062 | Rs 921.83 | 18.4 percent more | in stock |
| Zigly | Rs 11,871 | Rs 989.25 | 27.1 percent more | out of stock |
| Petsy | Rs 11,871 | Rs 989.25 | 27.1 percent more | in stock |
Check the pack description before the price on this brand, because two of these sellers also list a promotional bundle that reads as a pack size. Supertails and Petsworld both sell a "12+3 Kg" pack and Supertails sells "12kg+100g Treat" and "7kg+60g Treat". A table that put a 12 plus 3 free bundle in the same row as a plain 12 kg bag would compare different things, and this directory's own extractor got both shapes wrong before they were caught: it read "12+3 Kg" as 3 kg, which would have published a 15 kg bag at five times its real rate, and it added a bundled 5 kg of cat litter into the weight of 1.5 kg of cat food, which would have published that food at under a third of its real rate. Every bundle row on this brand was excluded from the comparison above.
Buying small is expensive here too. The same recipe in 2.5 kg runs Rs 1,002.80 to Rs 1,320.80 per kilogram across the same sellers, against Rs 778.42 to Rs 989.25 for the 12 kg Supertails, the shop's own Shopify product…. At the cheapest seller the small bag costs 28.8 percent more per kilogram than the big one, so trying a new food in a small bag has a real cost attached.
Two sellers at an identical figure, and they are the dearest. Zigly and Petsy both charge Rs 11,871 on this bag, to the rupee, and are unrelated retailers. Being jointly dearest by Rs 809 over the next seller is worth noting rather than explaining, because the obvious reading, that both are pricing at a common distributor reference, is a reading and not something any page states.
The cat range, for completeness. Farmina Matisse Kitten in 10 kg runs Rs 6,672 at Petsworld, Rs 6,908 at Zigly, Rs 7,093 at Heads Up For Tails and Rs 7,622 at Supertails, which is Rs 667.20 to Rs 762.20 per kilogram, a spread of 14.2 percent and the narrowest on this brand.
Every rupee figure here was divided by 84.38, 74 and 66.67 to test whether the list is a converted euro or dollar list rather than a rupee one. One quotient is exact and is reported rather than hidden: Rs 7,622 divided by 74 is 103.00. It is chance. The three other live prices for that same bag divide at the same rate to 90.16, 93.35 and 95.85, none of them round, and a converted list would convert the whole list. The rest of the figures behave the same way, which is what a rupee-native list looks like and what one would expect for a product landed and priced by an Indian importer rather than converted from a European price list.
Against the rest of this directory. The cheapest verified Farmina N&D is Rs 778.42 per kilogram. Kennel Kitchen's kibble, the cheapest dry dog food in this research, is Rs 179.67 per kilogram, so Farmina costs 4.3 times as much. It sits between Acana at Rs 703.38 and Orijen at Rs 849.94 on the same measure.
One recall, in 2026, that was never publicly announced
Farmina's US subsidiary recalled 8,051 bags of N&D Tropical Selection in March 2026 because the ingredient panel listed lamb while the front of the bag listed salmon, and FDA's record states that no press release was issued.
The record, field by field, read from FDA's own enforcement database today. Recall number V-0119-2026. Product: "Farmina Pet Foods N&D TROPICAL SELECTION salmon, spelt, oats and tropical fruits recipe Net Wt 22lb UPC 8 01027 60423 85. Dog Food." Reason: "Mislabeled Dog Food. The ingredient panel on the back list lamb while the front panel of the product list salmon." Quantity: 8,051 22 lb bags. Classification: Class III. Voluntary, firm initiated. Initial firm notification: E-Mail. Distribution: "Product was shipped to the following states: IL, MN, PA & TN." Recalling firm: Farmina Pet Food USA LLC. Recall initiation date: 25 March 2026.
Was any of it sold in India? No. FDA's own distribution field names four US states, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, and the recalling firm is the American subsidiary manufacturing in North Carolina. This page states that plainly rather than leaving a reader to infer a link to the Italian-made product sold in India.
It has since been completed. The status field now reads "Terminated" with a termination date of 28 August 2026, where this project's August research, reading the same record the day before, recorded it as ongoing. FDA also classified it late: its update history shows the classification changing from "Not Yet Classified" to Class III on 10 April 2026, sixteen days after the recall began.
The most useful thing about this recall is not the recall. FDA's record says "Press Release Not Issued For This Recall" and the firm notified consignees by e-mail. A Class III recall is the lowest hazard tier and carries no press-release requirement. So a buyer who checks whether a brand has ever been recalled by reading the news or the brand's own site, rather than the FDA enforcement database where this one sits, would find nothing here and would be wrong. That is true of the category rather than of this brand, and it is the reason this directory reads enforcement databases rather than headlines.
A detail that changes how to search this brand. FDA's own product description reads "Manufactured by: Famina Pet Food USA, LLC", misspelling the company, while the recalling-firm field spells it correctly. This project has recorded the identical misspelling in trade-press coverage of a different Farmina story, so it is a recurring transcription error attached to this brand rather than one journalist's typo, and searching Famina as well as Farmina is a required step.
What has not been searched, which matters more here than usual. The Indian product is made in Italy, so the European Union's RASFF system and the Italian authorities are the regulators with jurisdiction over the plant that made it, and neither was readable: the RASFF portal returns a JavaScript shell with no readable terms. The Serbian and Brazilian regulators, for the other plants, were not searched either. So this page reports what the US FDA register holds, a recall of a US-made lot, and states no result at all for the registers that cover the Italian plant, because an unreadable register produces no finding in either direction.
One adverse-event record, recorded only so it is not mistaken for more. FDA's CVM adverse event reports for May 2020 to May 2021 contain a line reading "Farmina N&D lamb, Dilated Cardiomyopathy - rule out nutritional", for a Mastiff reported in April 2021. An adverse event report is submitted by a member of the public or a vet. It is not an FDA finding, it establishes nothing about causation, and it is a single line. It is noted here because a later reader who finds it should know it was seen and weighed, not because it supports any conclusion.
The India site is a brochure with European small print
Farmina's Indian website has no prices, no basket and a store locator that returns 404, and its terms page is European consumer-law boilerplate last updated in May 2018.
What is actually there. farmina.com/in loads and lists the N&D, Vet Life, Matisse and Cibau ranges in its navigation. Read today it carries no price on any product, no add-to-cart control, and its store locator returns HTTP 404. The distributor lookup does work, and returns GOA Medicos.
What the small print says instead. The India terms page grants a 14-day right of withdrawal and a 24-month guarantee of conformity, which are European constructs, points consumers to the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform, addresses its statutory withdrawal form to Russo Mangimi S.p.A. in Nola, and sets governing law as the place of the owner's registered offices. Mid-document it says "Deliveries with in India are free" and gives an india@farmina.com cancellation address. Its own footer reads "Latest update: May 22, 2018".
So the free-delivery promise an Indian reader might rely on sits in an eight-year-old page of European boilerplate, on a site that sells nothing. Meanwhile a second terms page on the same India site, versioned February 2025, is governed by Netherlands law and the courts of Amsterdam. Neither page tells an Indian buyer what their rights are under Indian law. That is not fraud and it is not unusual for a brand entering a market through a distributor, but it is a concrete thing a reader can check, and it is the sort of thing only someone who opens the terms page finds.
A standard the brand does not cite, and its retailers do. Nothing on Farmina's India pages read here references AAFCO, and nothing references IS 11968:2019 either. Yet the Supertails Farmina listing carries five AAFCO references and the Petsy listing two Petsy, Farmina N&D Grain Free Pumpkin Lamb…. So the American benchmark that appears beside this brand in India is being added by the shops rather than claimed by the manufacturer, which is the reverse of the pattern on Carniwel and Felix, where the brand itself makes the claim.
What the brand competes on instead. Its own framing is provenance and science partnership, the University of Naples collaboration, its raw-material pages and its own technology and controls, rather than conformity to any published standard. That is a legitimate position and worth naming, because it means there is no third-party specification to hold this brand to and the buyer is being asked to trust the company.
One consumer promise with its catch, stated in full. Farmina publishes a satisfaction guarantee offering replacement if a pet will not eat the food, provided no more than 20 percent of the bag has been used and with transport costs borne by the buyer. The promise is specific and the condition is stated, so both halves are reproduced here; a description that omitted the 20 percent limit and the transport cost would not be describing the same promise.
What Indian law requires of an imported pet food
Farmina enters India under an animal-health import regime administered by the agriculture ministry rather than the food regulator, and one of its requirements bites on a specific Farmina ingredient.
Pet food is not legally food in India. The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 defines food for human consumption and excludes animal feed, so the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India sets no compulsory nutritional standard for dog or cat food.
The Indian standard is voluntary and this brand does not cite it. IS 11968:2019 is the Bureau of Indian Standards specification for extruded pet food and conformity is not compulsory. No BIS, ISI or IS 11968 reference was found on farmina.com/in or on any Indian listing read here.
The import regime applies squarely. The Animal Quarantine and Certification Service publishes India's import procedures and names the Pet Food Products of Animal Origin (Import into India) Order, with a Sanitary Import Permit required for high-risk products and pet foods listed as item 6, plus an official health certificate from the country of origin. A United States government guide for exporters sets out the substance: a permit held by the Indian importer, heat treatment to at least 70 degrees Celsius for at least 30 minutes or an approved equivalent, exclusion of ruminant material beyond milk and certain rendered fats, and inspection of the production facility.
One of those requirements lands on a specific Farmina product rather than on paperwork, and it is the only place in this research where that happens. The exporter guidance requires any imported ovine or caprine ingredient to carry country-of-origin certification that it is free of BSE and scrapie. Several N&D lines sold in India are LAMB recipes, and lamb is ovine. Whether those lines carry that certification, and under what documentation, is not established and is worth asking a seller before a large order. The requirement is established; its application to these bags is not.
The counter-intuitive result, as on the other imported brands. A bag of Farmina faces a permit, a heat-treatment specification, ingredient exclusions and a plant inspection. A pet food manufactured in India faces no compulsory product standard at all. The imported regime is the stricter of the two, it is an animal-health regime rather than a nutrition one, and none of it is visible to a buyer on any listing.
No FSSAI licence number appears anywhere. Not on farmina.com/in and not on any of the five Indian listings read here. For an imported product the licensable food business in India is the importer, GOA Medicos Private Limited, and nothing found suggests it does not hold a licence, so this is a disclosure gap rather than a compliance finding. Across every brand in this research the only licence number found on a pack belongs to Henlo.
What we could not establish
The 12 questions below are the ones this page could not answer, and they are published rather than left out. Each one names what was looked for, where, why it could not be settled, and the test that would show it if the answer were there.
Which of Farmina's factories made any given bag, and what the plant codes mean
A code-to-factory mapping, or a plant identification on an Indian pack
Looked in: Farmina's help centre, which states that each production facility has a unique code printed on the product label and does not publish the key, the five Indian listings, which declare Italy and name no plant, farmina.com/in, which publishes no mapping
Why it could not be settled: This is the highest-value unresolved item on the brand. The company has gone to the trouble of printing the answer on every bag and has not published the key, so a buyer holding the pack still cannot tell whether their food came from Nola, Belgrade, Sao Paulo or Reidsville. It also decides whether the brand's Italian-chicken claim applies to a given bag.
What would show otherwise: Farmina publishing the code-to-factory mapping would let any reader verify their own bag.
Which plant is the fourth one Farmina counts but does not name
A current list of the company's factories
Looked in: Farmina's help centre, which says four and names three, the FDA enforcement record, which proves a Reidsville, North Carolina plant exists and makes N&D
Why it could not be settled: The arithmetic on the company's own page does not work, and the obvious candidate is the North Carolina plant proven to exist by a US federal record. Obvious is not established, and this page does not close the gap by inference. It is recorded as an error on a brand page rather than as evidence of concealment.
What would show otherwise: A corrected list on Farmina's own page would close it.
Whether every N&D line sold in India comes from Italy
Origin declarations across the range rather than on one recipe family
Looked in: five sellers, all declaring Italy on the Pumpkin and Ancestral Grain lines read, Farmina's own factory list, which names plants on three continents
Why it could not be settled: One origin for one recipe family is not one origin for a range that includes Vet Life, Matisse, Cibau and the wet lines, and a later shipment of the same recipe could come from a different plant. The lines checked here are the Pumpkin and Ancestral Grain dry foods, and the finding should not be generalised beyond them.
What would show otherwise: Origin declarations read across the Vet Life, Matisse and Cibau lines would extend it.
What the EU RASFF and Italian registers hold for this brand
A searchable recall register covering the plant that makes the Indian product
Looked in: the EU RASFF portal, which returns HTTP 200 as a JavaScript shell with no readable terms, the Italian health ministry recall listings, which were not searched, the Serbian and Brazilian regulators, for the other plants, which were not searched
Why it could not be settled: The Indian product is made in Italy, so the European Union is the regulator with jurisdiction over the plant that made it, and the only register this page could read is the US FDA one, covering a United States subsidiary. The FDA recall of a US-made lot therefore tells an Indian reader nothing about the Italian plant, and no result is claimed for the registers that would.
What would show otherwise: RASFF answering a control term, or an Italian recall register searched with one, would close it.
Whether Farmina has earlier enforcement-report recalls
Pre-2026 FDA enforcement reports for this firm
Looked in: FDA's site search for farmina, which returns few documents and no earlier recall, the iRES enforcement database, which was read for the 2026 record but not enumerated for earlier years
Why it could not be settled: A Class III enforcement-report-only recall does not appear in FDA's ordinary site search, which is exactly how the 2026 one stayed invisible. So the absence of earlier results from that search is not evidence that no earlier recall exists, and this page does not state that the 2026 recall is the brand's only one.
What would show otherwise: An enumeration of the iRES database by firm across earlier years would settle it.
How the lamb N&D lines satisfy the BSE and scrapie certification requirement
Certification documentation for imported ovine ingredients
Looked in: the exporter guidance, which requires BSE- and scrapie-free certification for imported ovine or caprine ingredients, the Indian listings for the lamb recipes, which reference no certification, farmina.com/in, which publishes no Indian import documentation
Why it could not be settled: This is the one place in this research where the import rules bite on a specific product characteristic rather than on paperwork, because several N&D lines sold in India are lamb recipes and lamb is ovine. The requirement is established from the exporter guidance; whether and how these consignments satisfy it is not.
What would show otherwise: A consignment health certificate naming the ovine certification would close it.
Whether Farmina consignments enter India under a Sanitary Import Permit
A permit number, an import licence, or a consignment health certificate
Looked in: the Animal Quarantine and Certification Service procedures page, which names the Order and the permit requirement without publishing a register, all five Indian sellers, none of which references an import permit
Why it could not be settled: The regime requires the Indian importer to hold a permit and an official health certificate for each consignment. Whether these consignments have them is not established and no public register was located that would show it.
What would show otherwise: A permit number on an import document, or a published permit register entry, would close it.
Whether the Nola plant appears on India's approved-establishment list
An entry for Russo Mangimi's Nola facility on an Indian approved list
Looked in: the exporter guidance, which states that the production facility must be inspected, the Animal Quarantine and Certification Service procedures page, which publishes no plant register
Why it could not be settled: The regime requires facility inspection, so an approved-establishment list would in principle name the plant, and no such register was located or searched for this page.
What would show otherwise: The Indian department's approved-establishment list, searched for the Nola plant, would close it.
Whether GOA Medicos holds an FSSAI licence, and its number
A licence number on the brand's site or any Indian listing, or a FoSCoS entry
Looked in: farmina.com/in and its distributor page, the Supertails, Heads Up For Tails, Zigly, Petsworld and Petsy listings read here
Why it could not be settled: For an imported product the licensable food business in India is the importer. Nothing found suggests GOA Medicos does not hold a licence, and what is established is only that no page read publishes a number, so a reader cannot check it against the regulator's own register. FoSCoS was not queried.
What would show otherwise: A licence number on a pack, or a FoSCoS register entry for the importer, would close it.
Why Farmina's India privacy policy carries the importer's superseded CIN
The current Haryana CIN on the brand's India pages
Looked in: the India privacy policy, which names GOA Medicos twice as data controller with CIN U51397DL1996PTC081819 beside a Gurugram, Haryana address, the register, which gives the current CIN as U51397HR1996PTC133746 following the move from Delhi to Haryana
Why it could not be settled: A superseded corporate identifier on the page that names a data controller is a defect where it matters, because a reader exercising a data-protection right would quote a retired number. Whether it is a stale page or a different intention is not established, and the rest of the brand's disclosure on this importer is unusually good.
What would show otherwise: The current CIN appearing on that page would close it.
Whether Farmina Vet Life is sold in India under any veterinary supervision requirement
A statement of who may buy or dispense the therapeutic range in India
Looked in: Farmina's Vet Loyalty Programme and VetLife Portal, restricted to veterinarians and veterinary technicians, the Indian retailers, several of which list Vet Life openly alongside ordinary food
Why it could not be settled: A therapeutic diet is not an ordinary food, and the brand clearly routes the range through vets while retailers list it beside everything else. What Indian law requires, if anything, is not established, and this page makes no claim about it.
What would show otherwise: An Indian regulatory statement on therapeutic pet diets, or a seller's own restriction, would clarify it.
Why two unrelated sellers price the 12 kg bag identically
A reason for the Rs 11,871 figure appearing at two shops
Looked in: Zigly and Petsy, both at Rs 11,871 to the rupee on the same recipe and pack size, the other three sellers, at Rs 9,341, Rs 10,792 and Rs 11,062
Why it could not be settled: Two unrelated retailers landing on the same rupee figure is more likely to reflect a common distributor reference than coincidence, but that is a reading and no page states it. It is recorded rather than explained, and it does not affect any figure published here.
What would show otherwise: A published distributor price list would explain it.
Common questions
Where is Farmina dog food made?
The Farmina N&D sold in India is made in Italy, at Nola near Naples, by Russo Mangimi S.p.A. Five Indian sellers declare Italy and the manufacturer address they print matches the company's own statutory filing. Farmina also runs plants in Belgrade, Sao Paulo and Reidsville in North Carolina, so a different line or a later shipment could come from elsewhere, and the plant code printed on the bag is the only thing that settles a given pack.
Who owns Farmina?
The Russo family, through Russo Mangimi S.p.A. of Nola in Italy, held under Farmina Pet Foods Holding B.V. of Amsterdam. Francesco Russo founded the company as an animal nutrition business in 1965 and Angelo Russo moved it into pet food in 1999. It is the one imported brand in this research that belongs to neither Mars nor Nestle.
Who imports Farmina into India?
GOA Medicos Private Limited of Gurugram, CIN U51397HR1996PTC133746, incorporated in September 1996. Farmina names the company itself on its own distributor page, which no other imported brand here does, and all five Indian sellers name it too. Its paid-up capital is Rs 2 crore and its last balance sheet on the register is dated March 2025.
Has Farmina been recalled?
Yes, once that is established, and it sits on the US FDA enforcement register rather than anywhere a news search would reach. In March 2026 Farmina's US subsidiary recalled 8,051 bags of N&D Tropical Selection because the ingredient panel listed lamb while the front of the bag listed salmon. FDA classed it III, the lowest hazard tier, it shipped only to four US states, it was made in North Carolina rather than Italy, and it is now terminated. None of it was sold in India, and the EU registers covering the Italian plant could not be read.
Why did nobody hear about the Farmina recall?
Because no announcement was required. FDA's own record for the recall says "Press Release Not Issued For This Recall" and the firm notified its consignees by e-mail. A Class III recall is the lowest hazard tier and carries no press-release obligation, so a buyer checking a brand's recall history by reading the news or the brand's site would find nothing. That is true of the category rather than of this brand.
Is Farmina a good dog food?
This directory publishes no verdict between brands. The checkable part: it is made in the maker's own Italian plant rather than contracted out, the importer is named by the manufacturer itself, the brand cites a named university partner rather than an anonymous panel, and it cites no published standard at all, so there is no third-party specification to hold it to. Its one FDA recall was a US-made mislabelling never sold in India. Ask your vet about your own dog.
Is Farmina made in Italy?
The product sold in India is, at Nola near Naples, and that is better evidenced than for any other imported brand here: five Indian sellers declare Italy and the manufacturer address they print matches Russo Mangimi's own filed statutory address. The brand is not only Italian though. It runs plants in Belgrade, Sao Paulo and North Carolina as well, and a different line or a later shipment could come from one of those.
Why is Farmina so expensive?
It is imported from Italy, so it carries freight, duty and an importer's margin, and it is positioned as a premium recipe. Where you buy then matters more than most people expect: the same 12 kg bag runs Rs 9,341 to Rs 11,871 across five Indian sellers, a spread of 27.1 percent, and the small 2.5 kg pack costs about 29 percent more per kilogram than the big one at the same shop.
Where is the cheapest place to buy Farmina in India?
Petsworld was cheapest of the five sellers read, at Rs 9,341 for a 12 kg bag of N&D Pumpkin Lamb & Blueberry against Rs 11,871 at two others, a gap of Rs 2,530. Check the pack description rather than the stated weight: two sellers list a "12+3 Kg" promotional bundle that reads as a 15 kg pack, and one lists food bundled with cat litter, neither of which compares with a plain bag.