{"topic_id":"AAFCO_2024_official_publication_summary","category":"aafco","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"AAFCO_2024_official_publication_summary\"\ncategory: \"aafco\"\ntitle: \"AAFCO 2024 official publication summary\"\nlang: en\nsource_document: \"AAFCO Model Pet Food Regulations\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"AAFCO wp-content/uploads PDF\"\n  title: \"AAFCO 2024 official publication summary\"\n  url: \"\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-21\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official source\"\n  needs_review: true\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:std-body\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\nAAFCO 2024 Official Publication consolidates the association's current pet food reference materials. Its nutrient profiles carry forward the values last substantively updated in 2014/2016 — per the US nutrient profiles dataset, the 2024 edition is explicitly a \"carry-over of 2016 revisions\", so the dog and cat minimums and maximums (including the 2014 split dog calcium maximum of 1.8% DM for Growth & Reproduction / 2.5% DM for Adult Maintenance) stand unchanged. The publication includes, as Chapter Four, the Model Regulations for Pet Food and Specialty Pet Food Under the Model Bill (Regulations PF1-PF12, Section Editor—Lizette Beckman), covering label format, brand and product names, intended use and nutritional adequacy claims, the Pet Nutrition Facts panel, calorie content determination, and descriptive terms; and, as Chapter Six, the Official Feed Terms, Common or Usual Ingredient Names and Ingredient Definitions (Editor—Richard Ten Eyck, OR; submission guide Section Editor—Tammy Plank, FASS), containing roughly 650-700 ingredient definitions. No new numeric nutrient profile values were introduced in 2024; the edition is a consolidation of the 2014/2016 profile values with the current model regulatory text.\n","sources":["AAFCO wp-content/uploads PDF — AAFCO 2024 official publication summary (retrieved 2026-07-21)"],"source":{"authority":"AAFCO wp-content/uploads PDF","title":"AAFCO 2024 official publication summary","url":"https://www.aafco.org/","retrieved":"2026-07-21","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"AAFCO Model Pet Food Regulations","verification_file":""},"source_document":"AAFCO Model Pet Food Regulations","source_file":"","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":120,"generated_at":"2026-07-16","tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}