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Front of the trayLitter pan · large
Van Ness Sifting Cat Litter Pan, front of the tray
Turn it over: every ingredient is below
Van NessBrand transparency C

Sifting Cat Litter Pan

Litter pan · largeSuppliesScored October 2026

Panel Score 87 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Flags
11 caution
Ingredients
1all in our library
Brand grade
Ctransparency, costs 5 points
Recalls
0linked to this product
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Van Ness
Sifting Cat Litter Pan

Starting point96
Brand transparency · C-5
Documented recall · none0
Panel Score87 B

Good, check the flags

Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-4 points in all

1 flagged ingredient.

Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.

Caution-4

Undisclosed material

The maker doesn't say what this part is made of, so there is nothing to look up; the flag is about the missing name, not a known hazard.

IngredientsAs printed · 1 line

Every ingredient, top to bottom.

Listed as printed on the package. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.

1 ingredient. It carries this product's flag and is marked below.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Van Ness, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Van Ness.

Brand1 Van Ness product scored

The brand behind it.

CTransparency

Van Ness

Litter pans and pet housewares. Graded from what the packaging states, not from an audit of the company.

Says "BPA-free plastic" and stops there: the polymer is never named, so there is nothing to check. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.

Van Ness 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 13, 2026 The page now shows Panel Score 87 instead of Not enough data, with a caution for Undisclosed material. Its one line, “BPA-free plastic (polymer not named)”, was read as a marketing claim, so the record had no ingredient lines to score. It is now read as a material. Van Ness doesn't say which plastic it is, on its product pages or in its catalog, so the line carries the caution for a material the maker doesn't name. It is about the missing name, not a known hazard.

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