{"topic_id":"fediaf_historical_2024_cat_growth_reproduction","category":"fediaf-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: fediaf_historical_2024_cat_growth_reproduction\ncategory: fediaf-historical\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2024 Nutritional Guidelines — complete cat food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-4a)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines 2024\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2024.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-09-21\ntokens_estimated: 2541\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables\"\ncitation:\n authority: \"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food\"\n title: \"FEDIAF 2024 Nutritional Guidelines — complete cat food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-4a)\"\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-4a** (unit per 100 g dry matter) from the FEDIAF 2024 Nutritional Guidelines (Publication July 2024). The companion topic `fediaf_historical_2024_cat_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 cat table carries a single **Growth / Reproduction** column; where the two stages differ the source prints both values as `growth/reproduction` (e.g. protein 28.00/30.00, arginine 1.07/1.11 g per 100 g DM). Taurine minima are form-dependent (canned 0.25 vs dry 0.10 g per 100 g DM).\n\n## Table III-4a — growth & reproduction minimum recommended levels (per 100 g DM), 2024 edition\n\n| Nutrient | Unit | Growth / Reproduction |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Protein* | g | 28.00/30.00 |\n| Arginine* | g | 1.07/1.11 |\n| Histidine | g | 0.33 |\n| Isoleucine | g | 0.54 |\n| Leucine | g | 1.28 |\n| Lysine* | g | 0.85 |\n| Methionine* | g | 0.44 |\n| Methionine + cystine* | g | 0.88 |\n| Phenylalanine | g | 0.50 |\n| Phenylalanine + tyrosine* | g | 1.91 |\n| Threonine | g | 0.65 |\n| Tryptophan* | g | 0.16 |\n| Valine | g | 0.64 |\n| Taurine (canned pet food)* | g | 0.25 |\n| Taurine (dry pet food)* | g | 0.10 |\n| Fat* | g | 9.00 |\n| Linoleic acid (ω-6) | g | 0.55 |\n| Arachidonic acid (ω-6) | mg | 20.00 |\n| Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* | g | 0.02 |\n| EPA + DHA (ω-3)* | g | 0.01 |\n| Calcium* | g | 1.00 g |\n| Phosphorus* | g | 0.84 g |\n| Ca / P ratio | ratio | 1/1 |\n| Potassium | g | 0.60 |\n| Sodium* | g | 0.16 |\n| Chloride | g | 0.24 |\n| Magnesium* | g | 0.05 |\n| Copper* | mg | 1.00 |\n| Iodine* | mg | 0.18 |\n| Iron* | mg | 8.00 |\n| Manganese | mg | 1.00 |\n| Selenium (wet diets) | µg | 30.00 |\n| Selenium (dry diets) | µg | 30.00 |\n| Zinc | mg | 7.50 |\n| Vitamin A* | IU | 900.00 |\n| Vitamin D* | IU | 28.00 |\n| Vitamin E* | IU | 3.80 |\n| Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* | mg | 0.55 |\n| Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) | mg | 0.32 |\n| Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) | mg | 0.57 |\n| Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* | mg | 0.25 |\n| Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* | µg | 1.80 |\n| Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* | mg | 3.20 |\n| Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* | µg | 75.00 |\n| Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* | µg | 7.00 |\n| Choline | mg | 240.00 |\n| Vitamin K* | µg | - |\n\nGrowth-relevant maxima on this table: arginine 3.50 (N), methionine 1.30 (N) and tryptophan 1.70 (N) for growth; Ca/P ratio 1.5/1 (N, growth); vitamin A 40 000 IU (N, adult & growth) / 33 333 IU (N, reproduction) / 227 IU (L); vitamin D 3 000 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-4a 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 2024 slice is kept as a separate topic so each historical edition remains independently citable.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2024.txt` (faithful `pdftotext -layout` extraction of the 2024 edition PDF).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- ` Protein* g 33.30 25.00 28.00/30.00 -`\n- ` Arginine* g 1.30 1.00 1.07/1.11 Growth:\t\t 3.50 (N)`\n- ` Histidine g 0.35 0.26 0.33 -`\n- ` Isoleucine g 0.57 0.43 0.54`\n- ` Leucine g 1.36 1.02 1.28`\n- ` Lysine* g 0.45 0.34 0.85`\n- ` Methionine* g 0.23 0.17 0.44 Growth:\t\t 1.30 (N)`\n- ` Methionine + cystine* g 0.45 0.34 0.88`\n- ` Phenylalanine g 0.53 0.40 0.50`\n- ` Phenylalanine + tyrosine* g 2.04 1.53 1.91`\n- ` Threonine g 0.69 0.52 0.65`\n- ` Tryptophan* g 0.17 0.13 0.16 Growth:\t\t 1.70 (N)`\n- ` Valine g 0.68 0.51 0.64`\n- ` Taurine (canned pet food)* g 0.27 0.20 0.25`\n- ` Taurine (dry pet food)* g 0.13 0.10 0.10`\n- ` Fat* g 9.00 9.00 9.00`\n- ` Linoleic acid (ω-6) g 0.67 0.50 0.55`\n- ` Arachidonic acid (ω-6) mg 8.00 6.00 20.00`\n- ` Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* g - - 0.02`\n- ` EPA + DHA (ω-3)* g - - 0.01`\n- ` Calcium* g 0.53 g 0.40 g 1.00 g`\n- ` Phosphorus* g 0.35 g 0.26 g 0.84 g f`\n- ` Ca / P ratio`\n- ` Growth:\t\t 1.5/1 (N)`\n- ` 1/1 Adult:\t\t 2/1 (N)`\n- ` Potassium g 0.80 0.60 0.60`\n- ` Sodium* g 0.10 0.08 0.16 e`\n- ` Chloride g 0.15 0.11 0.24 \t\t`\n- ` Magnesium* g 0.05 0.04 0.05`\n- ` Copper* mg 0.67 0.50 1.00 \t\t2.80 (L)`\n- ` Iodine* mg 0.17 0.13 0.18 \t\t1.10 (L)`\n- ` Iron* mg 10.70 8.00 8.00 68.18 (L)`\n- ` Manganese mg 0.67 0.50 1.00 17.00 (L)`\n- ` Selenium (wet diets) µg 35.00 26.00 30.00 56.80 (L)d`\n- ` Selenium (dry diets) µg 28.00 21.00 30.00 56.80 (L)d`\n- ` Zinc mg 10.00 7.50 7.50 22.70 (L)`\n- ` Vitamin A* IU 444.00 333.00 900.00`\n- ` Adult & Growth: 40 000 (N)`\n- ` Reproduction: 33 333 (N)`\n- ` Vitamin D* IU 33.30 25.00 28.00`\n- ` 3 000 (N)`\n- ` Vitamin E* IU 5.07 3.80 3.80`\n- ` Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* mg 0.59 0.44 0.55`\n- ` Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) mg 0.42 0.32 0.32`\n- ` Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) mg 0.77 0.58 0.57`\n- ` Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* mg 0.33 0.25 0.25`\n- ` Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* µg 2.35 1.76 1.80`\n- ` Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* mg 4.21 3.20 3.20`\n- ` Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* µg 101.00 75.00 75.00`\n- ` Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* µg 8.00 6.00 7.00`\n- ` Choline mg 320.00 240.00 240.00`\n- ` Vitamin K* µg - - -`\n- `FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication July 2024 Page 3 of 98`\n","sources":["FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food — FEDIAF 2024 Nutritional Guidelines — complete cat food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-4a) (retrieved 2026-09-21)"],"source":{"authority":"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food","title":"FEDIAF 2024 Nutritional Guidelines — complete cat food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-4a)","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_2024.txt"},"source_document":"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables","source_file":"pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2024.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":2541,"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=cat&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=cat&lifestage=adult&nutrient=protein&basis=DM","batch":"/api/v1/batch_nutrient?standard=FEDIAF&year=2025&species=cat&lifestage=adult&nutrients=protein,fat,calcium,phosphorus&basis=DM"}}