{"topic_id":"pet_tox_caffeine_alcohol_avocado","category":"pet-toxicology","context":"---\ntopic_id: pet_tox_caffeine_alcohol_avocado\ncategory: pet-toxicology\ntitle: \"Pet acute-toxicity — caffeine / ethanol (alcohol) / avocado (Persin)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Some food toxic for pets (peer-reviewed review, PMC2984110, Tavily server-side extract 2026-07-21)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/pmc-pet-food-toxic-pmc2984110.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-21\ntokens_estimated: 218\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 12\n  passed: 12\n  date: 2026-07-21\nsource_document: \"ASPCA / pet toxicology reference\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Some food toxic for pets\"\n  title: \"Pet acute-toxicity — caffeine / ethanol (alcohol) / avocado (Persin)\"\n  url: \"\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-21\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"official PDF\"\n  needs_review: true\nlicense: cc_by\nauthority_tier: T2\nauthority_tier_basis: \"T2:oa-journal\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-04\n---\n\n# Pet acute-toxicity — caffeine, ethanol (alcohol), avocado (Persin)\n\nSource: \"Some food toxic for pets\" (PMC2984110), first-hand peer-reviewed review, Tavily server-side extract 2026-07-21. Companion to the chocolate/onion/grape/macadamia topics.\n\n## Caffeine (methylxanthine)\n\"Caffeine\" is \"caffeine (1,3,7-trimethylxanthine)\". \"Theobromine is also found in tea, cola beverages, and some other foods.\" \"Theobromine in chocolate is 3–10 times that of caffeine.\" \"Caffeine tablets ingested by dogs\" — \"tablets often contain 100 mg each\".\n\n## Ethanol / alcohol\n\"Alcohol toxicoses\": \"Ethanol is the alcohol in alcoholic beverages, perfumes and mouthwashes.\" \"Dogs cannot tolerate alcohol, even in small amounts.\"\n\n## Avocado (Persin)\n\"Avocado fruit, pits, leaves and the actual plant are all potentially poisonous to dogs.\" \"Persin is a fungicidal toxin found in both the fruit and leaves of the avocado tree.\" \"Persea americana\" — \"Feeding avocados to any non-human animal should be completely avoided.\"\n\nNote: the review does not give a numeric lethal dose for avocado (\"The lethal dose is not known\"); caffeine/ethanol clinical mg/kg thresholds are also not provided in this source, so no fabricated doses.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/pmc-pet-food-toxic-pmc2984110.txt` — \"Some food toxic for pets\" (PMC2984110, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984110/).\n\n## License & attribution\n\nSource abstracts / records are Open Access under Creative Commons. Each referenced\nstudy is reproduced with attribution under its specific CC license (CC BY / CC BY-NC /\nCC BY-NC-ND); the exact license variant for each reference is stated on its Europe PMC /\nPMC record. Original records:\n- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984110/\n","sources":["Some food toxic for pets — Pet acute-toxicity — caffeine / ethanol (alcohol) / avocado (Persin) (retrieved 2026-07-21)"],"source":{"authority":"Some food toxic for pets","title":"Pet acute-toxicity — caffeine / ethanol (alcohol) / avocado (Persin)","url":"https://www.aspca.org/","retrieved":"2026-07-21","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"ASPCA / pet toxicology reference","verification_file":"pdf-raw/pmc-pet-food-toxic-pmc2984110.txt"},"source_document":"ASPCA / pet toxicology reference","source_file":"pdf-raw/pmc-pet-food-toxic-pmc2984110.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T2","fidelity":"verbatim","license":"cc_by","display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":218,"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."}