FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines — complete cat food minimum recommended nutrient levels (growth & reproduction columns, Table III-4a)

FEDIAF (European Pet Food) publishes nutrient-based trade guidelines for complete pet foods. This topic extracts the growth & reproduction columns of Table III-4a (unit per 100 g dry matter) from the FEDIAF 2021 Nutritional Guidelines (Publication October 2021). The companion topic fediaf_historical_2021_cat_adult_maintenance carries the verbatim full-table slice framed on adult maintenance; here the complete growth/reproduction column set is rendered as a clean per-stage table. Every value below is taken from the verbatim source row line(s) listed under Claims — nothing is interpolated, and cells the source marks "-" stay "-". Levels reflect minimum recommended amounts including a safety margin; they are not minimum requirements.

The cat table carries a single Growth / Reproduction column; where the two stages differ the source prints both values as growth/reproduction (e.g. protein 28.00/30.00, arginine 1.07/1.11 g per 100 g DM). Taurine minima are form-dependent (canned 0.25 vs dry 0.10 g per 100 g DM).

Table III-4a — growth & reproduction minimum recommended levels (per 100 g DM), 2021 edition

Growth-relevant maxima on this table: arginine 3.50 (N), methionine 1.30 (N) and tryptophan 1.70 (N) for growth; Ca/P ratio 1.5/1 (N, growth); vitamin A 40 000 IU (N, adult & growth) / 33 333 IU (N, reproduction) / 227 IU (L); vitamin D 3 000 IU (N). EU legal limits (L) for trace elements apply at all stages.

Cross-edition note

The growth/reproduction values in Table III-4a are identical across the 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025 editions of the guidelines (verified by diffing the extracted tables of pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021/2022/2024/2025.txt; only publication-date footers and table-layout whitespace differ). This 2021 slice is kept as a separate topic so each historical edition remains independently citable.

Source: pdf-raw/fediaf-historical/fediaf_nutritional_guidelines_2021.txt (faithful pdftotext -layout extraction of the 2021 edition PDF).

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

• Protein* g 33.30 25.00 28.00/30.00 -
• Arginine* g 1.30 1.00 1.07/1.11 Growth: 3.50 (N)
• Histidine g 0.35 0.26 0.33 -
• Isoleucine g 0.57 0.43 0.54
• Leucine g 1.36 1.02 1.28
• Lysine* g 0.45 0.34 0.85
• Methionine* g 0.23 0.17 0.44 Growth: 1.30 (N)
• Methionine + cystine* g 0.45 0.34 0.88
• Phenylalanine g 0.53 0.40 0.50
• Phenylalanine + tyrosine* g 2.04 1.53 1.91
• Threonine g 0.69 0.52 0.65
• Tryptophan* g 0.17 0.13 0.16 Growth: 1.70 (N)
• Valine g 0.68 0.51 0.64
• Taurine (canned pet food)* g 0.27 0.20 0.25
• Taurine (dry pet food)* g 0.13 0.10 0.10
• Fat* g 9.00 9.00 9.00
• Linoleic acid (ω-6) g 0.67 0.50 0.55
• Arachidonic acid (ω-6) mg 8.00 6.00 20.00
• Alpha-linolenic acid (ω-3)* g - - 0.02
• EPA + DHA (ω-3)* g - - 0.01
• Calcium* g 0.53 g 0.40 g 1.00 g
• Phosphorus* g 0.35 g 0.26 g 0.84 g f
• Ca / P ratio
• Growth: 1.5/1 (N)
• 1/1 Adult: 2/1 (N)
• Potassium g 0.80 0.60 0.60
• Sodium* g 0.10 0.08 0.16 e
• Chloride g 0.15 0.11 0.24
• Magnesium* g 0.05 0.04 0.05
• Copper* mg 0.67 0.50 1.00 2.80 (L)
• Iodine* mg 0.17 0.13 0.18 1.10 (L)
• Iron* mg 10.70 8.00 8.00 68.18 (L)
• Manganese mg 0.67 0.50 1.00 17.00 (L)
• Selenium (wet diets) µg 35.00 26.00 30.00 56.80 (L)d
• Selenium (dry diets) µg 28.00 21.00 30.00 56.80 (L)d
• Zinc mg 10.00 7.50 7.50 22.70 (L)
• Vitamin A* IU 444.00 333.00 900.00
• Adult & Growth: 40 000 (N)
• Reproduction: 33 333 (N)
• Vitamin D* IU 33.30 25.00 28.00
• 3 000 (N)
• Vitamin E* IU 5.07 3.80 3.80
• Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)* mg 0.59 0.44 0.55
• Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) mg 0.42 0.32 0.32
• Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) mg 0.77 0.58 0.57
• Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)* mg 0.33 0.25 0.25
• Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)* µg 2.35 1.76 1.80
• Vitamin B3 (Niacin)* mg 4.21 3.20 3.20
• Vitamin B9 (Folic acid)* µg 101.00 75.00 75.00
• Vitamin B7 (Biotin)* µg 8.00 6.00 7.00
• Choline mg 320.00 240.00 240.00
• Vitamin K* µg - - -
• FEDIAF Nutritional Guidelines | Publication October 2021 Page 1 of 98