{"topic_id":"fediaf_historical_2025_dog_per_mj_me","category":"fediaf-historical","context":"---\ntopic_id: fediaf_historical_2025_dog_per_mj_me\ncategory: fediaf-historical\ntitle: \"FEDIAF 2025 Nutritional Guidelines — recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food (TABLE III-3c, unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME))\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines 2025\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2025.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-09-21\ntokens_estimated: 2615\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables\"\ncitation:\n authority: \"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food\"\n title: \"FEDIAF 2025 Nutritional Guidelines — recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food (TABLE III-3c, unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME))\"\n url: \"\"\n retrieved: \"2026-09-21\"\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 reproduces **TABLE III-3c — recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food, unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME)** from the FEDIAF 2025 Nutritional Guidelines (Publication September 2025). This is the same recommended-level dataset as the dry-matter table (`fediaf_historical_2025_dog_adult_maintenance`, Table III-3a) expressed on an **energy basis**: per MJ ME. As the table header states, maximum levels are given only on a dry-matter basis (see Table III-3a); the right-hand column therefore repeats the legal/nutritional maxima markers without DM values. 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-3c from the source PDF text.\n\n```\n\fTABLE III-3c.\nRecommended nutrient levels for complete dog food\nUnit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME)\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) & (given only on DM basis, see table III-3a)\n 95 kcal/kg 0.75\n 110 kcal/kg 0.75 (≥ 14 weeks)\n Reproduction (N) = nutritional\n Protein* g 12.50 10.80 14.94 11.95 -\n Arginine* g 0.36 0.31 0.49 0.44 -\n Histidine g 0.16 0.14 0.23 0.15 -\n Isoleucine g 0.32 0.27 0.39 0.30 -\n Leucine g 0.57 0.49 0.77 0.48 -\n Lysine* g 0.29 0.25 0.53 0.42 Growth:\t\t 1.67 (N)\n Methionine* g 0.28 0.24 0.21 0.16 -\n Methionine + cystine* g 0.53 0.46 0.42 0.32 -\n Phenylalanine g 0.37 0.32 0.39 0.30 -\n Phenylalanine + tyrosine* g 0.62 0.53 0.78 0.60 -\n Threonine g 0.36 0.31 0.48 0.38 -\n Tryptophan g 0.12 0.10 0.14 0.13 -\n Valine g 0.41 0.35 0.41 0.33 -\n Fat* g 3.29 3.29 5.08 5.08 -\n Linoleic acid (ω-6)* g 0.91 0.79 0.78 0.78 Early Growth: 3.88 (N)\n Arachidonic acid (ω-6)* mg - - 17.90 17.90 -\n Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* g - - 0.05 0.05 -\n EPA + DHA (ω-3)* g - - 0.03 0.03 -\n Minerals\n Adult:\t\t 1.49 (N)\n 0.48a\n Calcium* g 0.35 0.30 0.60 Early growth: 0.96 (N)\n 0.60b\n Late growth: 1.08 (N)\n Adult:\t\t 0.96 (N)\n Phosphorus* g 0.28 0.24 0.54 0.42 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 0.35 0.30 0.26 0.26 -\n Sodium* g 0.07 0.06 0.13 0.13 \t\t\n c\n\n\n Chloride g 0.10 0.09 0.20 0.20 \t\t\n c\n\n\n Magnesium g 0.05 0.04 0.02 0.02 -\n Trace elements* \t\t\n Copper* mg 0.50 0.43 0.66 0.66 \t\t(L)\n Iodine* mg 0.07 0.06 0.09 0.09 \t\t(L)\n Iron* mg 2.49 2.15 5.26 5.26 \t\t(L)\n Manganese mg 0.40 0.34 0.33 0.33 \t\t(L)\n Selenium* (wet diets) µg 16.10 13.70 23.90 23.90 \t\t(L)\n Selenium* (dry diets) µg 13.10 10.80 23.90 23.90 \t\t(L)\n Zinc* mg 4.98 4.30 5.98 5.98 \t\t(L)\n Vitamins\n Vitamin A* IU 419.00 362.00 299.00 299.00 23 900 (N)\n \t\t(L)\n Vitamin D* IU 38.20 33.00 33.00 29.90\n 191.00 (N)\n Vitamin E* IU 2.49 2.20 3.00 3.00\n Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* mg 0.15 0.13 0.11 0.11 -\n Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)* mg 0.42 0.36 0.25 0.25 -\n Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid)* mg 0.98 0.85 0.72 0.72 -\n Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* mg 0.10 0.09 0.07 0.07 -\n Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* µg 2.31 2.00 1.67 1.67 -\n Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* mg 1.13 0.98 0.81 0.81 -\n Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* µg 17.90 15.40 12.90 12.90 -\n Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* µg - - - - -\n Choline mg 113.00 97.80 102.00 102.00 -\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\nFEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication September 2025 Page 17 of 98\n```\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2025.txt` (faithful `pdftotext -layout` extraction of `pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2025.pdf`).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `\fTABLE III-3c.`\n- `Unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME)`\n- ` Protein* g 12.50 10.80 14.94 11.95 -`\n- ` Calcium* g 0.35 0.30 0.60 Early growth: 0.96 (N)`\n- ` Vitamin D* IU 38.20 33.00 33.00 29.90`\n- ` Choline mg 113.00 97.80 102.00 102.00 -`\n- `FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication September 2025 Page 17 of 98`\n","sources":["FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food — FEDIAF 2025 Nutritional Guidelines — recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food (TABLE III-3c, unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME)) (retrieved 2026-09-21)"],"source":{"authority":"FEDIAF — Nutritional Guidelines for Pet Food","title":"FEDIAF 2025 Nutritional Guidelines — recommended nutrient levels for complete dog food (TABLE III-3c, unit per MJ of metabolisable energy (ME))","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_2025.txt"},"source_document":"FEDIAF historical nutrient tables","source_file":"pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2025.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":2615,"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"}}