{"topic_id":"fediaf_historical_2022_dog_adult_maintenance","category":"fediaf-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: fediaf_historical_2022_dog_adult_maintenance\ncategory: fediaf-historical\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2022 Nutritional Guidelines — complete dog food minimum recommended nutrient levels (adult maintenance, Table III-3a)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines 2022\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2022.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 2273\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\n---\n\nFEDIAF (European Pet Food) publishes nutrient-based trade guidelines for complete pet foods. This topic reproduces the **minimum recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food — adult maintenance** from the FEDIAF 2022 Nutritional Guidelines (Publication October 2021 Page 1 of 98). Values are per 100 g dry matter (DM). The right-hand column gives maximums: \"(L) = EU legal limit\" and \"(N) = nutritional maximum\". Levels reflect minimum recommended amounts including a safety margin; they are not minimum requirements.\n\nThe table below is a verbatim continuous slice of Table III-3a from the source PDF text.\n\n```\nTABLE III-3a. Unit per 100 g dry matter (DM)\n Minimum Recommended Level Maximum\n\n Nutrient UNIT Adult - based on MER of Early Growth (L) = EU legal limit\n Late Growth\n (< 14 weeks) &\n 95 kcal/kg 0.75\n 110 kcal/kg 0.75 (≥ 14 weeks)\n Reproduction (N) = nutritional\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 Minerals\n Adult:\t\t 2.50 (N)\n 0.80a\n Calcium* g 0.58 0.50 1.00 Early growth: 1.60 (N)\n 1.00b\n Late growth: 1.80 (N)\n Adult:\t\t 1.60 (N)\n Phosphorus* g 0.46 0.40 0.90 0.70\n h\n\n\n Adult:\t\t 2/1 (N)\n Early growth & reprod.: 1.6/1 (N)\n Ca / P ratio 1/1\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 \t\t\n Chloride g 0.17 0.15 0.33 0.33 \t\t\n c\n\n\n Magnesium g 0.08 0.07 0.04 0.04 -\n Trace elements* \t\t\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 Vitamins\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\nWhen a nutrient has an asterisk (*), additional information and substantiation references are available in Chapter 3.3.1.\nand 3.3.2. Footnotes a-h are summarised below Table III-4c.\n\n\n\nFEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication October 2021 Page 15 of 98\n```\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2022.txt` (faithful `pdftotext -layout` extraction of `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2022.pdf`).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `TABLE III-3a. Unit per 100 g dry matter (DM)`\n- `Protein* g 21.00 18.00 25.00 20.00 -`\n- `Calcium* g 0.58 0.50 1.00 Early growth: 1.60 (N)`\n- `Vitamin D* IU 63.90 55.20 55.20 50.00`\n- `FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication October 2021 Page 1 of 98`\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":889,"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."}