{"topic_id":"fediaf_historical_2021_dog_growth_reproduction","category":"fediaf-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: fediaf_historical_2021_dog_growth_reproduction\ncategory: fediaf-historical\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines — complete dog food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-3a)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines 2021\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-09-21\ntokens_estimated: 2733\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables\"\ncitation:\n authority: \"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food\"\n title: \"FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines — complete dog food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-3a)\"\n url: \"\"\n retrieved: \"2026-07-24\"\n ref: \"\"\n doc_type: \"official PDF\"\n needs_review: true\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T1:std-body\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-09-21\n---\n\nFEDIAF (European Pet Food) publishes nutrient-based trade guidelines for complete pet foods. This topic extracts the **growth & reproduction columns of Table III-3a** (unit per 100 g dry matter) from the FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines (Publication October 2021). The companion topic `fediaf_historical_2021_dog_adult_maintenance` carries the verbatim full-table slice framed on adult maintenance; here the **complete** growth/reproduction column set is rendered as a clean per-stage table. Every value below is taken from the verbatim source row line(s) listed under Claims — nothing is interpolated, and cells the source marks \"-\" stay \"-\". Levels reflect minimum recommended amounts including a safety margin; they are not minimum requirements.\n\nThe dog table carries two growth columns — **Early Growth (< 14 weeks) & Reproduction** and **Late Growth (≥ 14 weeks)**. Footnotes a/b split the late-growth calcium minimum by expected adult body weight (0.80a for breeds up to 15 kg adult weight during the whole late-growth phase; 1.00b for breeds over 15 kg until about 6 months of age), and the late-growth Ca/P maximum varies accordingly (1.8/1a or 1.6/1b).\n\n## Table III-3a — growth & reproduction minimum recommended levels (per 100 g DM), 2021 edition\n\n| Nutrient | Unit | Early Growth (< 14 weeks) & Reproduction | Late Growth (≥ 14 weeks) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Protein* | g | 25.00 | 20.00 |\n| Arginine* | g | 0.82 | 0.74 |\n| Histidine | g | 0.39 | 0.25 |\n| Isoleucine | g | 0.65 | 0.50 |\n| Leucine | g | 1.29 | 0.80 |\n| Lysine* | g | 0.88 | 0.70 |\n| Methionine* | g | 0.35 | 0.26 |\n| Methionine + cystine* | g | 0.70 | 0.53 |\n| Phenylalanine | g | 0.65 | 0.50 |\n| Phenylalanine + tyrosine* | g | 1.30 | 1.00 |\n| Threonine | g | 0.81 | 0.64 |\n| Tryptophan | g | 0.23 | 0.21 |\n| Valine | g | 0.68 | 0.56 |\n| Fat* | g | 8.50 | 8.50 |\n| Linoleic acid (ω-6)* | g | 1.30 | 1.30 |\n| Arachidonic acid (ω-6)* | mg | 30.00 | 30.00 |\n| Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* | g | 0.08 | 0.08 |\n| EPA + DHA (ω-3)* | g | 0.05 | 0.05 |\n| Calcium* | g | 1.00 | 0.80a / 1.00b |\n| Phosphorus* | g | 0.90 | 0.70 |\n| Ca / P ratio | ratio | 1/1 | 1/1 |\n| Potassium | g | 0.44 | 0.44 |\n| Sodium* | g | 0.22 | 0.22 |\n| Chloride | g | 0.33 | 0.33 |\n| Magnesium | g | 0.04 | 0.04 |\n| Copper* | mg | 1.10 | 1.10 |\n| Iodine* | mg | 0.15 | 0.15 |\n| Iron* | mg | 8.80 | 8.80 |\n| Manganese | mg | 0.56 | 0.56 |\n| Selenium* (wet diets) | µg | 40.00 | 40.00 |\n| Selenium* (dry diets) | µg | 40.00 | 40.00 |\n| Zinc* | mg | 10.00 | 10.00 |\n| Vitamin A* | IU | 500.00 | 500.00 |\n| Vitamin D* | IU | 55.20 | 50.00 |\n| Vitamin E* | IU | 5.00 | 5.00 |\n| Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* | mg | 0.18 | 0.18 |\n| Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)* | mg | 0.42 | 0.42 |\n| Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid)* | mg | 1.20 | 1.20 |\n| Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* | mg | 0.12 | 0.12 |\n| Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* | µg | 2.80 | 2.80 |\n| Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* | mg | 1.36 | 1.36 |\n| Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* | µg | 21.60 | 21.60 |\n| Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* | µg | - | - |\n| Choline | mg | 170.00 | 170.00 |\n| Vitamin K* | µg | - | - |\n\nGrowth-relevant maxima on this table: lysine 2.80 g/100 g DM (N, growth); linoleic acid 6.50 g/100 g DM (N, early growth); calcium 1.60 (N, early growth) / 1.80 (N, late growth); Ca/P ratio 1.6/1 (N, early growth & reproduction) and 1.8/1a or 1.6/1b (N, late growth); vitamin A 40 000 IU (N) / 227.00 IU (L); vitamin D 320.00 IU (N). EU legal limits (L) for trace elements apply at all stages.\n\n## Cross-edition note\n\nThe growth/reproduction values in Table III-3a are **identical across the 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025 editions** of the guidelines (verified by diffing the extracted tables of `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021/2022/2024/2025.txt`; only publication-date footers and table-layout whitespace differ). This 2021 slice is kept as a separate topic so each historical edition remains independently citable.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021.txt` (faithful `pdftotext -layout` extraction of the 2021 edition PDF).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- ` Protein* g 21.00 18.00 25.00 20.00 -`\n- ` Arginine* g 0.60 0.52 0.82 0.74 -`\n- ` Histidine g 0.27 0.23 0.39 0.25 -`\n- ` Isoleucine g 0.53 0.46 0.65 0.50 -`\n- ` Leucine g 0.95 0.82 1.29 0.80 -`\n- ` Lysine* g 0.46 0.42 0.88 0.70 Growth:\t\t 2.80 (N)`\n- ` Methionine* g 0.46 0.40 0.35 0.26 -`\n- ` Methionine + cystine* g 0.88 0.76 0.70 0.53 -`\n- ` Phenylalanine g 0.63 0.54 0.65 0.50 -`\n- ` Phenylalanine + tyrosine* g 1.03 0.89 1.30 1.00 -`\n- ` Threonine g 0.60 0.52 0.81 0.64 -`\n- ` Tryptophan g 0.20 0.17 0.23 0.21 -`\n- ` Valine g 0.68 0.59 0.68 0.56 -`\n- ` Fat* g 5.50 5.50 8.50 8.50 -`\n- ` Linoleic acid (ω-6)* g 1.53 1.32 1.30 1.30 Early Growth: 6.50 (N)`\n- ` Arachidonic acid (ω-6)* mg - - 30.00 30.00 -`\n- ` Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* g - - 0.08 0.08 -`\n- ` EPA + DHA (ω-3)* g - - 0.05 0.05 -`\n- ` Calcium* g 0.58 0.50 1.00 Early growth: 1.60 (N)`\n- ` 0.80a`\n- ` 1.00b`\n- ` Late growth: 1.80 (N)`\n- ` Phosphorus* g 0.46 0.40 0.90 0.70`\n- ` Ca / P ratio 1/1`\n- ` Early growth & reprod.: 1.6/1 (N)`\n- ` Late growth: 1.8/1a (N) or`\n- ` \t\t1.6/1b (N)`\n- ` Potassium g 0.58 0.50 0.44 0.44 -`\n- ` Sodium* g 0.12 0.10 0.22 0.22 c`\n- ` Chloride g 0.17 0.15 0.33 0.33 \t\t`\n- ` Magnesium g 0.08 0.07 0.04 0.04 -`\n- ` Copper* mg 0.83 0.72 1.10 1.10 \t\t 2.80 (L)`\n- ` Iodine* mg 0.12 0.11 0.15 0.15 \t\t 1.10 (L)`\n- ` Iron* mg 4.17 3.60 8.80 8.80 68.18 (L)`\n- ` Manganese mg 0.67 0.58 0.56 0.56 \t\t17.00 (L)`\n- ` Selenium* (wet diets) µg 27.00 23.00 40.00 40.00 \t\t56.80 (L)d`\n- ` Selenium* (dry diets) µg 22.00 18.00 40.00 40.00 \t\t56.80 (L)d`\n- ` Zinc* mg 8.34 7.20 10.00 10.00 \t\t22.70 (L)`\n- ` Vitamin A* IU 702.00 606.00 500.00 500.00 40 000 (N)`\n- ` 227.00 (L)`\n- ` Vitamin D* IU 63.90 55.20 55.20 50.00`\n- ` 320.00 (N)`\n- ` Vitamin E* IU 4.17 3.60 5.00 5.00`\n- ` Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* mg 0.25 0.21 0.18 0.18 -`\n- ` Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)* mg 0.69 0.60 0.42 0.42 -`\n- ` Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid)* mg 1.64 1.42 1.20 1.20 -`\n- ` Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* mg 0.17 0.15 0.12 0.12 -`\n- ` Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* µg 3.87 3.35 2.80 2.80 -`\n- ` Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* mg 1.89 1.64 1.36 1.36 -`\n- ` Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* µg 29.90 25.80 21.60 21.60 -`\n- ` Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* µg - - - - -`\n- ` Choline mg 189.00 164.00 170.00 170.00 -`\n- ` Vitamin K* µg - - - - -`\n- `FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication October 2021 Page 1 of 98`\n","sources":["FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food — FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines — complete dog food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-3a) (retrieved 2026-09-21)"],"source":{"authority":"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food","title":"FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines — complete dog food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-3a)","url":"https://europeanpetfood.org/nutrition/","retrieved":"2026-09-21","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables","verification_file":"pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021.txt"},"source_document":"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables","source_file":"pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":2733,"generated_at":null,"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.","structured_data":{"note":"The nutrient values in this topic are also available as structured data — faster and exact, no text parsing needed.","compare":"/api/v1/cross_compare?standards=AAFCO,FEDIAF,KFDA&species=dog&lifestage=adult&nutrient=protein&basis=DM","coverage":"Standards: AAFCO (year>=2014), FEDIAF (year>=2025), EU PARNUT (year>=2020), KFDA/NIAS Korea (year>=2024). species: dog|cat. lifestage: adult|GR (growth/puppy/kitten map to growth-reproduction). basis: DM|cal.","single":"/api/v1/nutrient?standard=FEDIAF&year=2025&species=dog&lifestage=adult&nutrient=protein&basis=DM","batch":"/api/v1/batch_nutrient?standard=FEDIAF&year=2025&species=dog&lifestage=adult&nutrients=protein,fat,calcium,phosphorus&basis=DM"}}