Fish Meal — cross-standard identity
Derived crosswalk of how one pet-food ingredient is named and defined across three jurisdictions. No claim of regulatory equivalence is made — pairings are anchored on Latin name + process and the verdict states where the definitions actually diverge.
- Latin anchor: Pisces (whole fish or fish cuttings)
- Process anchor: clean, dried, ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish or fish cuttings; oil may be partly extracted; salt rule if >3% NaCl (AAFCO); EU: heated/pressed/dried whole or parts of fish, solubles may be re-added
- Verdict:
equivalent
Per-jurisdiction entry
- 🇺🇸 AAFCO (US) — Ch.6
51.14"Fish Meal": clean, dried, ground tissue of undecomposed whole fish or fish cuttings, either or both, with or without the extraction of part of the oil. If it contains more than 3% salt ( ), the amount of salt must constitute a part of the product name, provided that in no case must the salt content of this product exceed 7%. The label shall include guarantees for minimum crude protein, minimum crude fat, maximum crude fiber, minimum phosphorus (P) and minimum and maximum calcium (Ca). If it bears a name descriptive of its kind, it must correspond thereto. (Adopted 1933, Amended 1984, Amended 2003, 2004) _(src: AAFCO OP 2024 Ch.6, code 51.14)_ - 🇪🇺 EU — Reg 68/2013
10.4.2"Fish meal(30)": Product obtained by heating, pressing and drying whole or parts of fish and to which fish solubles may have been re-added prior to drying. _(src: EU Reg 68/2013 Annex, code 10.4.2)_ - 🇨🇳 CN — 公告1773
鱼粉: 全鱼或经分割的鱼体经蒸煮、压榨、脱脂、干燥、 粉碎获得的产品。在干燥过程中可加入鱼溶浆。不 得使用发生疫病和受污染的鱼。该产品原料若来源 于淡水鱼，产品名称应标明“淡水鱼粉”。 _(src: 农业部公告第1773号 饲料原料目录, entry 鱼粉)_
Crosswalk verdict
All three define fish meal as dried/rendered whole-fish-or-cuttings tissue. Differences: AAFCO caps salt at 7% with naming rule; EU allows re-adding fish solubles before drying; CN requires '淡水鱼粉' naming if freshwater origin and prohibits diseased/contaminated fish. Same identity, minor process/labelling differences.
Multilingual names (official where free)
- EN (AAFCO/EU): see per-jurisdiction entry above
- ZH (CN): 鱼粉
- BG (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Рибно брашно
- CS (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): rybí moučka
- DA (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Fiskemel
- DE (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Fischmehl
- EL (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Ιχθυάλευρο
- ES (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Harina de pescado
- ET (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Kalajahu
- FI (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Kalajauho
- FR (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Farine de poissons
- GA (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): not available in Irish (GA) on EUR-Lex — document 32013R0068 was never translated into Irish
- HR (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Riblje brašno
- HU (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Halliszt
- IT (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Farina di pesce
- LT (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Žuvų miltai
- LV (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Zivju milti
- MT (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Smida tal-ħut
- NL (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Vismeel
- PL (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Mączka rybna
- PT (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Farinha de peixe
- RO (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Făină de pește
- SK (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Rybia múčka
- SL (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): ribja moka
- SV (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official): Fiskmjöl
- JA (FAMIC 飼料の公定規格 別表): 魚粉
- KO (사료 등의 기준 및 규격 별표 5, law.go.kr admRulSeq 2100000263778): pending — authoritative feed-material list published only as HWP (Hangul Word Processor), which could not be parsed in this environment
- RU (EAEU ТР feed): pending — the cited ТР ТС 024/2011 is the oils/fats regulation; an EAEU feed technical regulation is not in-force on eec.eaeunion.org and national texts (adilet.zan.kz, souzkombikorm.ru) are unreachable from this environment
> Method: derived_from_dataset. Every quoted name/definition is from the first-hand source cited per cell. Equivalence is a derived editorial judgement anchored on Latin name + process; where jurisdictions use different regulatory units (named meal vs category-based PAP) the verdict is regulatory_divergence / no_confirmed_equivalent rather than 'same'.