Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Hill's Science Diet and Orijen both sit inside multinational consumer goods groups, but the two brands draw on very different corporate heritages. Hill's Science Diet faced a 2019 vitamin D over-supplementation recall on canned dog food that led to a US$12.5 million class-action settlement; cat food was not affected. Orijen faced multiple US heavy-metals class actions between 2018 and 2022 which were dismissed or resolved in Champion's favour; Orijen cat food was withdrawn from Australia in 2008 over AU border irradiation issues before the government banned the practice in 2009. Both brands have faced public scrutiny events that continue to surface in consumer discussion.
Hill's Science Diet is made in the United States. It employs more than 150 in-house veterinarians and PhD nutritionists, and runs a veterinary-only clinical portal at myhillsvet.com.au.
Orijen runs production exclusively at two company-owned kitchens in Alberta and Kentucky with no private-label work. It is built around 'WholePrey' ratios with 85 to 90 percent animal inclusions including fresh and raw meat, organs and bone.
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