{"topic_id":"VN_LAW_ANIMAL_HUSBANDRY_32_2018","category":"vn-2026","context":"---\ntopic_id: VN_LAW_ANIMAL_HUSBANDRY_32_2018\ncategory: vn-2026\ntitle: \"Vietnam — Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14 (feed provisions, English)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14, Socialist Republic of Vietnam (promulgated Hanoi, 19 Nov 2018). Official English translation obtained 2026-08-18 via Tavily server-side extract of the FAOLEX deposit (FAO, UN). Defines 'animal feed' and related categories — the feed layer relevant to Vietnam pet food / animal feed.\"\nsource_file:\n  - \"pdf-raw/vn-2026/faolex_law_on_animal_husbandry_32_2018_en.txt\"\nsource_type: official_law_english_translation\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-18\ntokens_estimated: 480\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 5\nsource_document: \"Vietnam Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14 (FAOLEX English translation)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (via FAOLEX / FAO)\"\n  title: \"Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14\"\n  url: \"https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/vie209580.pdf\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-18\"\n  ref: \"Vietnam Law on Animal Husbandry 32/2018 (FAOLEX EN)\"\n  doc_type: \"national law (official English translation deposited with FAO)\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1: national law (government)\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-18\n---\n\n# Vietnam — Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14 (feed provisions)\n\n**Primary source (first-hand, landed):** *Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14*, National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, promulgated in Hanoi on 19 November 2018. Official English translation obtained 2026-08-18 via Tavily server-side extract of the FAOLEX (FAO, UN) deposit. The Law is the framework statute for livestock; its feed-related definitions form the legal basis for animal feed, which overlaps with pet food. Verbatim C1-checked excerpts below.\n\n## Key facts (verbatim from the Law)\n\n- \"LAW ON ANIMAL HUSBANDRY\"\n- \"This Law provides for raising of livestock, rights and obligations of organizations and individuals involved in animal husbandry and state management in animal husbandry.\"\n- \"means any raw or processed product given to domesticated animals including complete feed, concentrated feed, feed additives and traditional feed.\"\n- \"means a mixture of multiple feed ingredients compounded to create a nutritionally adequate feed capable of sustaining life and promoting production of domesticated animals over growth stages or production cycles without other feeds than water.\"\n- \"Hanoi, November 19, 2018\"\n\n## Relevance to pet food\n\nVietnam's *Law on Animal Husbandry* defines the core feed vocabulary — **animal feed** (any raw or processed product given to domesticated animals, including complete feed, concentrated feed, feed additives and traditional feed) and **complete feed** (a nutritionally adequate mixture sustaining life and production without other feeds than water). Although the Law is livestock-oriented, these definitions are the statutory baseline for **animal feed** in Vietnam, the category into which processed **pet food** falls. Decree/circular-level pet-food-specific rules sit beneath this framework.\n\n## Honest gaps\n\n- Only the title, scope and the two feed definitions (Articles 25–26) are reproduced verbatim; the Law's remaining feed-safety, labelling and registration chapters were not exhaustively quoted.\n- Subordinate pet-food-specific regulations (decrees/circulars on pet food registration and labelling) were not obtained this session and remain pending.\n","sources":["vn-2026 — Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14 (retrieved 2026-08-18)"],"source":{"authority":"vn-2026","title":"Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14","url":"https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/vie209580.pdf","retrieved":"2026-08-18","ref":"","doc_type":"official source","source_document":"Vietnam Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14 (FAOLEX English translation)","verification_file":"Law on Animal Husbandry No. 32/2018/QH14, Socialist Republic of Vietnam (promulgated Hanoi, 19 Nov 2018). 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