MX pet food MX vs AAFCO comparison

Mexico-US comparison per USDA GAIN FAIRS Country Report MX2025-0049 (December 2025) and the AAFCO references in this corpus: Mexico has no pet-food-specific nutrient profile table in the FAIRS report — unlike AAFCO's Dog and Cat Food Nutrient Profiles in the US, the Mexican framework documented here is safety-and-labeling oriented (Federal Animal Health Law: SADER oversees pet and animal feed, feed additives and livestock pharmaceuticals with MRLs; SENASICA enforces import requirements via HRZ zoosanitary sheets; NOM-051-SCFI-2010 governs prepackaged-food labeling with mandatory Spanish). The report's front-of-pack warning-octagon rules belong to NOM-051's human-food obesity amendments and are not extended to pet food in the source. Claims in the earlier draft — Mexican AAFCO observer status since 2005, pet-food warning octagons since 2021, a 50 mg/kg ascorbic acid cap, a 100 mg/kg sodium nitrite limit, a Mexican dog-food calcium minimum of 0.8% DM vs AAFCO's 0.5%, and "Mexico is the #1 export market for US pet food" — are not supported by the FAIRS report or other sources in this corpus and should be treated as unverified until a Mexican pet-food nutrient standard (NOM or PROY-NOM from SADER/SENASICA) is obtained and parsed.