Natural Balance Pet Foods is an American commercial pet food manufacturer located in Pacoima, California and established in 1989 by actor Dick Van Patten. The company markets itself as "Food For a Lifetime" and promotes itself as having "the finest food you can buy for your pet." The current President is Joey Herrick and Vice President is Frank Koch.

Understanding the ingredients of your dog's food items is a must for the dog lovers or dog owners. Whenever you feed the dog with different kinds of food items, you should always read the label and understand the contents about the dog feed types that are being used in such commercial preparations while you are buying.

Dogs need different diets at different ages. For example, the puppy needs milk as the major food item while an adult dog may need beef or chicken in addition to the boiled egg and milk. So depending on the age factor, the diet schedule varies in reality for the dogs like any other species.

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A report of botulism prompted Castleberry to recall 10 product lines under various brand names on July 19th, 2007. The recall has been expanded to over 90 products, including Natural Balance pet foods products that are manufactured to human quality standards. However, dogs and cats are believed to be highly resistant to to botulism toxins.

An industrial chemical that led to the nationwide recall of more than 100 brands of cat and dog food has turned up in a second pet food ingredient imported from China. The chemical, melamine, is believed to have contaminated rice protein concentrate used to make a variety of Natural Balance Pet Foods products for both dogs and cats.