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Remove artificial colourants from our products.

We're committed to removing artificial colours from our product range.

Our goal

By 2020, we will completely remove artificial colourants from our main meal products.

By 2023, we will completely remove artificial colourants in snacks.

Our achievement to date

100% Achieved 

We have achieved our goal well ahead of time. All artificial colourants have been removed from our meals and snacks

At Purina, not only do we purposefully select our ingredients, but we want to be transparent about them. The last remaining volumes of artificial colourants were removed at our Russian Vorsino factory in June 2019. We can also report that Purina did not purchase any artificial colourants in 2020. Whilst we’ve met these goals early, we are also taking steps to reduce our overall colourants usage. 

Our point of view

We know that when choosing a pet food, most owners want their choice to look appetising. In the production process, pet food can lose colour so artificial colourants are added to maintain a more desirable and consistent appearance. Non artificial colourants are substances that exist in nature, when they are extracted from nature they are ‘natural’ and when they are processed they are considered non artificial.

However, we recognise that just as people don’t want artificial colourants in the food that they eat, they don’t want them in the foods their pets eat either.


oday we don’t add artificial colourants to many of our products, such as our super premium dry products: Purina ProPlan, Purina Dog Chow and our wet cat food brand: Felix. These products represented more than half our sales in 2014.

Product reformulation takes time, but we’ve taken great strides on our journey. We have already completed the assessment of our Premium Dry range to define a plan to remove any remaining added artificial colourants in Purina dry foods.

 

Building on Nestlé CSV

Just as we are committed to improving the lives of pets and the people who love them, our parent company Nestlé, is committed to enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future for individuals and families, our communities and the planet.

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Case Study: France - FIDO® Croq’Mix® relaunch 2020

Our new range was created with consumers needs top of mind.

• No artificial colourants

• 70% of ingredients are ‘made’ in France

• 97% of our dry food packaging is in recyclable or designed to be recyclable packaging 

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