Original Medium Biscuits
Biscuits · 24 oz boxTreats & chewsScored October 2026
- Flags
- 41 avoid · 3 caution
- Ingredients
- 17all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyMilk-Bone
Original Medium Biscuits
Proceed with caution
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
4 flagged ingredients.
Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.
BHA (preservative)
A preservative flagged as a possible carcinogen in animal studies; many brands have dropped it.
Meat and bone meal
An unnamed-mammal protein with high bone content; the least transparent protein you can buy.
Sulfite preservatives
A sulfite preservative, not the curing salt sodium nitrite; sulfites destroy thiamine (vitamin B1).
Natural flavor
An undisclosed blend. Not harmful per se, but it hides what's actually in the recipe.
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17 ingredients. 5 of them carry this product's 4 flags and are marked below. The other 12 raised no flag.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsMilk-Bone, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Milk-Bone.
The brand behind it.
Milk-Bone
The classic biscuit still leans on meat and bone meal and BHA, listed twice on the current panel.
Relies on ingredients that don't name their source species. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
Milk-Bone brand page
Independent testing & contaminants
No independent testing on file.
Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.
We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.
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This page was corrected once.
- Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 67 → 63: “Unnamed animal ingredients” is now “Meat and bone meal”, and added a caution for Sulfite preservatives. “Unnamed animal ingredients” was a flag of our own for lines that don't say which animal they come from. We retired it on October 24, 2026 for the entries our library has for those lines, each counted once: the line was “Meat and bone meal”, which our library flags as Meat and bone meal. The panel also lists “Sodium metabisulfite (used as a preservative)”, a sulfite preservative, and the record was not carrying the flag.
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