About Pet Data Station

Pet Data Station is a free, AI-crawler-friendly knowledge base for pet data — with depth in three areas: food & nutrition (feed standards, ingredient definitions, nutrient profiles, contaminant limits), health (inherited disorders, breed predispositions, adverse drug events, toxicology, evidence-layer literature, care manuals), and regulation & law (feed/labeling law across 10+ jurisdictions, pet travel, breed bans, exotic-pet legality, recalls and enforcement). Everything is served as 5756 pre-generated, citation-rich RAG topics plus human-readable manuals, articles and data compilations — accessible without registration, without API keys, and with built-in anti-scraping protections.

What We Cover

  • 🍖 Food & Nutrition — AAFCO, FEDIAF, EU PARNUT, eCFR 21 CFR, China GB/T + NY/T, Korea NIAS, Japan MAFF, Canada CFIA nutrient standards; 650 AAFCO + 604 EU official ingredient definitions; cross-standard nutrient matrices; contaminant limit tables; ingredient composition (Feedipedia/CVB).
  • 🩺 Health — 208+ OMIA inherited-disorder breed records (University of Sydney, published in themed waves), 312 breed standards (AKC/CFA/FCI/TICA), FDA animal-drug adverse events (530+ active ingredients), Europe PMC evidence clusters, toxicology thresholds, WSAVA/AAHA clinical guidelines, and 23 self-authored species care manuals (dog, cat + 21 exotic species).
  • ⚖️ Regulation & Law — feed and labeling law in the US, EU, China, Korea, Japan, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, Mexico, Australia and more; pet travel & entry rules; banned-breed directories; exotic-pet legality (incl. CITES, US Lacey Act, EU IAS 1143/2014); recall & enforcement tracking (FDA, EU RASFF, China administrative penalties); market-size statistics for 9 countries.

Who It's For

  • AI assistants and crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, etc.) that need authoritative regulatory references in their context.
  • Cross-border pet product companies doing compliance research across 8+ jurisdictions.
  • Pet food formulators comparing AAFCO vs FEDIAF vs GB/T nutrient requirements.
  • Veterinary and academic researchers referencing regulatory standards in publications.
  • Vets and vet-techs checking FDA adverse-event stats per active ingredient, toxicity thresholds, or evidence-layer literature clusters.
  • Pet owners and travelers verifying entry requirements, breed bans, exotic-pet legality, vaccine mandates, and local leash/licensing ordinances.
  • Journalists and policy analysts tracking how pet food regulations evolve globally.

Design Principles

  1. No registration. No API key. Anonymous access with rate limits only.
  2. Parameterized queries only. No dump endpoints, no wildcards, no bulk retrieval.
  3. Topic whitelist for RAG. Pre-generated, citation-rich text per topic.
  4. English-only API. Multilingual docs but English is the canonical language for queries.
  5. Tiered rate limits. 60 req/min with zero artificial delay for 24 recognized AI crawler user-agents; 30 req/min + 50-200ms jitter for other clients (HTTP 429 + Retry-After).
  6. Honeypot endpoints. /api/v1/all, /api/v1/dump, /admin blocked at 403/404.
  7. Subject to the terms of source documents. Mostly public regulatory standards; a minority of pet-health content is derived (paraphrased) from copyrighted veterinary references (e.g., Merck Veterinary Manual, RSPCA) under non-commercial use.

Data Sources (Summary)

Most data comes from public regulatory documents; a minority of pet-health content is derived (paraphrased, not reproduced) from copyrighted veterinary references (e.g., Merck Veterinary Manual, RSPCA) under non-commercial use. We synthesize and standardize across bodies; we do not republish source text. For the complete list with topic counts and links, see Data Sources.

  • AAFCO (US) — Nutrient Profiles 1994/2013-2024, Ch6 ingredient definitions (650 entries)
  • FEDIAF (EU) — Nutritional Guidelines 2018-2025 editions
  • EU — Reg 2020/354 PARNUT + Feed Catalogue Reg 68/2013 + Feed Materials Register (4704 products)
  • eCFR + FDA — 21 CFR Parts 501/573/582/589, GRAS Notice Inventory (365), SCOGS (381), DCM investigation
  • China MOA — GB/T 31216/31217, NY/T 4838/4839, MOA 2018 Pet Feed Reg + 公告第20号
  • Korea MAF — Saeroo Gicho 2025, Byeolpyo 15-2, NIAS 2024 nutrient tables
  • Japan MAFF — Pet Food Safety Act 2008, MAFF Guidelines 2026, statutory contaminant/microbial limits
  • Canada CFIA — RG-1, VHH ingredient list, Feeds Regulations 2024, Health Canada permissible-claims
  • NASC + PFI — quality-seal programs, label modernization
  • openFDA ADE — animal-drug adverse events, 530+ active ingredients
  • Pet health & law — evidence layer (Europe PMC literature), Feedipedia/CVB ingredient composition, WSAVA/AAHA vaccine guidelines, toxicology thresholds, pet travel rules, banned-breed directories, US state/local pet ordinances, drug shortages
  • Companion-animal breeds & inherited health — 312 breed standards synthesized from AKC / CFA / FCI / TICA registry documents; 208+ inherited-disorder breed records from OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney), used with written curator permission under FAIR attribution (dataset DOI 10.25910/2AMR-PV70), published in themed waves with entry-level source links
  • Market statistics — pet-market size / pet-population / channel-structure topics for 9 countries (CA/KR/JP/UK/FR/IT/ES/BR/DE) from government and official trade sources (e.g., Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, ZZF/IVH, PDSA)
  • USDA + US State — FoodData Central, state feed/ingredient lists
  • EFSA / RASFF / GAIN / Brazil / Mexico / Australia — scientific opinions, alerts, and supplementary + cross-cutting frameworks
  • Exotic companion animals — a dedicated track (categories exotic-pet-food, exotic-pet-health, exotic-pet-nutrition, exotic-pet-legality, exotic-pet-china, exotic-pet-japan) covering rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, gerbils, hedgehogs, sugar gliders, ferrets, pet birds, reptiles, amphibians, aquarium fish — species nutrition, husbandry, disease, and invasive-species/biodiversity regulation. Sourced from first-hand veterinary references (e.g., Merck Veterinary Manual) — paraphrased, not quoted verbatim (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten).

For AI Crawlers

The single most useful entry point is /llm.txt — ~1,300-word project summary with all endpoint info, aliases, and citation guidance.

For topic queries: GET /api/v1/topics (discovery) → GET /api/v1/llm_context?topic=<id> (RAG text). Humans can browse the same topics at /site/topics/ (5756 static pages), plus readable layers: 23 species manuals, 96 narrative articles, and 641 original data compilations. MCP clients connect to https://petforai.com/mcp/ (8 read-only tools).

For single-point queries: GET /api/v1/nutrient?standard=<X>&year=<YYYY>&species=<dog|cat>&lifestage=<GR|adult>&nutrient=<protein|Ca|...>&basis=<DM|cal>

For cross-standard comparison: GET /api/v1/cross_compare?standards=<AAFCO_2024,FEDIAF_2025>&species=<dog>&lifestage=<adult>&nutrient=<protein>&basis=<DM> (bare codes like AAFCO,FEDIAF also accepted = latest indexed edition)

Citation

Cite as: Pet Data Station (https://petforai.com/llm.txt), accessed <YYYY-MM-DD>.

Each topic's meta.json contains a sources array listing the source regulatory document. Where possible, link through to the regulatory authority's published version.

License & Terms

Most source documents are public regulatory standards (public domain / Open-Access). A minority of pet-health content is derived (paraphrased) from copyrighted veterinary references (e.g., Merck Veterinary Manual, RSPCA) under non-commercial use and is not reproduced verbatim. Synthesized RAG topics are CC-BY-4.0. Cross-standard nutrient index is MIT-licensed.

We do not permit automated bulk scraping or republication. Use this database for legitimate research, product compliance checks, and AI-model context augmentation within the rate limits. See the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for full details.

Contact

For data corrections, new source suggestions, AI crawler rate-limit requests, abuse reports, or partnership inquiries, see the Contact page. We aim to respond within 3 business days.