Overview
ABINPET — *Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Produtos para Animais de Estimação* (Brazilian Association of Pet Product Industries) — is the primary industry association representing Brazil's pet sector. The organization was founded in 1980 as ANFAR (*Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Ração* / National Association of Feed Manufacturers), renamed to ANFAL in 1999, and rebranded as ABINPET as the industry expanded beyond feed to encompass the full pet product spectrum. Today ABINPET represents four industry segments: Pet Food, Pet Care, Pet Vet (veterinary medicines), and Ingredients.
ABINPET's role is industry advocacy, standards support (publishing the *Manual Pet Food Brasil* — a good manufacturing practice guide developed with academic institutions), and regulatory engagement with MAPA and other government bodies.
Source: ABINPET 2025 Institutional Folder (BR_abinpet_2025_folder.pdf).
Pet Food Product Taxonomy
ABINPET, referencing Instrução Normativa nº 30/2009 (IN 30/2009) and IN 39/2014, defines pet food into the following categories:
Alimento completo (Complete food): Product with specific or functional characteristics, composed of ingredients or raw materials and additives, intended exclusively for companion animals, capable of fully meeting their nutritional requirements. May have specific or functional properties.
Alimento coadjuvante (Coadjuvant food): Product for companion animals with physiological or metabolic disorders, fully meeting specific nutritional requirements. Formulation must be unconditionally free of any pharmacologically active agent (per IN 39/2014).
Alimento específico (Specific food): Product for companion animals intended as a treat, reward, or accolade — not characterized as a complete food.
Alimento industrializado (Industrialized food): Any food processed in an industrial environment that meets all specific sector regulations.
Alimento natural (Natural food): Derived from plant, animal, or mineral ingredients in their natural state or subject only to physical transformation, thermal treatment, processing, purification, extraction, hydrolysis, enzymolysis, or fermentation — without chemically synthesized elements except in quantities unavoidable through good manufacturing practices (definition per AAFCO 2014, cited by ABINPET).
Alimento caseiro (Homemade food): Prepared outside industrial environments; ABINPET does not recommend homemade diets due to risk of nutritional imbalance.
Tax Classification
Brazil classifies industrialized pet food as a "produto supérfluo" (luxury good), placing it in the same tax category as alcoholic beverages and tobacco. The tax burden on Brazilian pet food averages approximately 50%, compared to an ~18% world average and ~19% in Europe / ~7% in the US (per USDA GAIN BR2024-0015). The 2024 tax reform maintained this classification.
Source: ABEMPET/ABINPET data (BR_abinpet_mercado_dados.html); USDA GAIN BR2024-0015 (referenced in BR2026-0001); ABINPET 2025 Institutional Folder.