{"topic_id":"FEDIAF_2025_micronutrient_upper_limits","category":"fediaf","context":"---\ntopic_id: \"FEDIAF_2025_micronutrient_upper_limits\"\ncategory: \"fediaf\"\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2025 micronutrient upper limits\"\nlang: en\nsource_document: \"FEDIAF Statutes / Nutritional Guidelines — Regulation 1831/2003\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"fediaf\"\n  title: \"FEDIAF 2025 micronutrient upper limits\"\n  url: \"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32003R1831\"\n  retrieved: \"\"\n  ref: \"Regulation 1831/2003\"\n  doc_type: \"official source\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:statute\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\nFEDIAF 2025 sets two kinds of upper limits in its nutrient tables (sections 3.1.3 and Tables III-3a/III-4a): a nutritional maximum (N) — the highest level not expected to cause harmful effects, which FEDIAF recommends commercial pet foods not exceed — and a legal maximum (L) per EU feed-additive legislation (Regulation 1831/2003 register), mandatory for all life stages and applying to the total amount in the finished product when the nutrient is added as an additive. Dog values (per 100 g DM): Vitamin A nutritional maximum 40,000 IU (N) — excess causes hypervitaminosis A; Vitamin D maximum 320 IU (N) (legal 227); trace-element legal maxima: Zinc 22.70 mg (L) (= 227 mg/kg DM), Copper 2.80 mg (L) (= 28 mg/kg), Iron 68.18 mg (L), Manganese 17.00 mg (L), Iodine 1.10 mg (L), Selenium 56.80 µg (L) (= 0.568 mg/kg). Cat values (per 100 g DM): Vitamin A maximum 40,000 IU (N) for adult & growth and 33,333 IU (N) for reproduction (legal 227); Vitamin D maximum 3,000 IU (N); the same trace-element legal maxima as dogs (Cu 2.80, Fe 68.18, Mn 17.00, I 1.10 mg; Se 56.80 µg; Zn 22.70 mg per 100 g DM). If a nutrient comes exclusively from feed materials (not added as an additive), the legal maximum does not apply and the nutritional maximum, when listed, should be used instead.\n","sources":["fediaf — FEDIAF 2025 micronutrient upper limits"],"source":{"authority":"fediaf","title":"FEDIAF 2025 micronutrient upper limits","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32003R1831","retrieved":"","ref":"Regulation 1831/2003","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"FEDIAF Statutes / Nutritional Guidelines — Regulation 1831/2003","verification_file":""},"source_document":"FEDIAF Statutes / Nutritional Guidelines — Regulation 1831/2003","source_file":"","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":114,"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."}