Pet
Food Label "Rules"
- The 95%
Rule: If the product says “Salmon Cat Food” or “Beef
Dog Food,” 95% of the product must be the named ingredients. A
product with a combination label, such as “Beef and Liver for
Dogs,” must contain 95% beef and liver, and there must be more
beef than liver, since beef is named first.
- The 25%
or “Dinner” Rule: Ingredients named on the label must comprise
at least 25% of the product but less than 95%, when there is a qualifying
“descriptor” term like “dinner,” “entree,”
“formula,” “platter,” “nuggets,”
etc. In “Beef Dinner for Dogs,” beef may or may not be the
primary ingredient. If two ingredients are named (“Beef and Turkey
Dinner for Dogs”), the two ingredients must total 25%, there must
be more of the first ingredient (beef) than the second (turkey), and
there must be at least 3% of the lesser ingredient.
- The 3%
or “With” Rule: A product may be labeled “Cat Food
with Salmon” if it contains at least 3% of the named ingredient.
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The
“Flavor” Rule: A food may be labeled “Turkey Flavor
Cat Food” even if the food does not contain such ingredients,
as long as there is a “sufficiently detectable” amount
of flavor. This may be derived from meals, by-products, or “digests”
of various parts from the animal species indicated on the label.
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