Updated, Tuesday August 7, 9:30 a.m. PT: In a statement to TheWrap on Tuesday, Bobby Modi, Vice President of Pet Food & Pet Snacks for parent company The J.M. Smucker Company, said that “we never use ingredients in our products that harm pets” and added that the company plans to “aggressively defend ourselves against this misleading lawsuit.”
“We were disappointed to be recently notified of a lawsuit filed against us claiming we knowingly deceive pet parents about our products. Despite what this lawsuit claims, we would never use ingredients in our products that harm pets. The pesticide mentioned in the lawsuit, glyphosate, is commonly used by farmers but is obviously never added as an ingredient in our products,” Modi said.