Quinoa — cross-standard identity (AAFCO 2024 / EU Reg 68/2013)

Quinoa — cross-standard identity

Derived crosswalk of how one pet-food ingredient is named and defined across jurisdictions. No claim of regulatory equivalence is made — the pairing is anchored on Latin name + process and the verdict states where the definitions actually diverge. AAFCO cells are paraphrased fact summaries (copyrighted source); EU/CN/KR cells are verbatim from government sources.

• Latin anchor: Chenopodium quinoa Willd.
• Process anchor: AAFCO 60.12 "Quinoa Seed"; EU 1.5.1 "Quinoa seed, extracted"
• Verdict: equivalent

Per-jurisdiction entry

• 🇺🇸 AAFCO (US) — Ch.6 60.12 "Quinoa Seed": AAFCO 60.12 Quinoa Seed is the cleaned whole seed of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), sound, with saponin removed from the seed's outer layer (Proposed 2002, ingredient definition number amended 2010, Published 2012). _(paraphrase) — AAFCO OP 2024 Ch.6, code 60.12; AAFCO OP is copyrighted, cell is a derived fact summary, not verbatim)_

• 🇪🇺 EU — Reg 68/2013 1.5.1 "Quinoa seed, extracted": Cleaned whole seed of the quinoa plant (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) from which the saponin contained in the seeds outer layer has been removed _(src: EU Reg 68/2013 Annex, code 1.5.1)_

• 🇨🇳 CN — 公告1773: no confirmed equivalent entry found in the CN feed-ingredient directory (Ann.1773) for "Quinoa". CN 公告1773 contains no quinoa/藜麦 entry — honest gap. _(src: 农业部公告第1773号 饲料原料目录)_

• 🇰🇷 KO: no confirmed Korean name in the local 별표1/별표2 HWP extracts (the parsed extract set is partial — the animal-origin and mineral sections of 별표1 are not in the local set); live regulation 사료등의기준및규격(전문)_2025-93호 currency unverified in this environment. Honest gap, not fabricated.

Crosswalk verdict

AAFCO 60.12 and EU 1.5.1 'Quinoa seed, extracted' name the same product: cleaned whole seed of Chenopodium quinoa Willd. with the saponin removed from the seed's outer layer. Same species, same de-saponising process — equivalent on the AAFCO↔EU axis. CN and KR have no entry.

Multilingual names (official where free)

• EN (AAFCO/EU): see per-jurisdiction entry above
• ZH (CN): no confirmed CN entry
• KO (KR): not confirmed in local 별표1/별표2 extracts (partial set) — honest gap
• ES / FR / DE (EUR-Lex 68/2013 official 24-language versions): pending — collection via EUR-Lex multilingual fetch
• JA (MAFF 成分规格) / RU (EAEU TR): pending — collection pending

> Method: derived_from_dataset. Every quoted name/definition is from the first-hand source cited per cell (AAFCO paraphrase mode; EU/CN/KR verbatim). Equivalence is a derived editorial judgement anchored on Latin name + process; where jurisdictions use different regulatory units the verdict is closest_with_differences / no_confirmed_equivalent rather than 'same'. Per-claim verification detail: _source.json claims_detail.