Agriculture your username December 10, 2020 The Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court’s denial of class certification in a lawsuit against Champion Petfoods in an opinion filed on Wednesday. The court determined that the plaintiff’s allegations that dog food sold by the defendant was misleading and that the packaging did not contain an accurate representation of the dog food were “without merit.” The initial complaint, filed in March 2018 in the Central District of California, purported that Champion misled its consumers by not disclosing that its pet foods contained heavy metals and toxins. The defendants reportedly had a mission “to be trusted by pet lovers” and create pet food that mirrored what pets would eat in nature with natural ingredients, but betrayed the trust they had built by selling dog foods with various levels of arsenic, mucurly, lead, and cadmium. The plaintiffs have been seeking injunctive relief, an order enjoining the defendants from selling the food, restitution, and damages from Champion.