Aafco Approved Raw Dog Food

Dr billinghurst is very critical of aafco standards.

Aafco approved raw dog food.

Aafco establishes the nutritional standards for complete and balanced pet foods and it is the pet food company s responsibility to formulate their products according to the appropriate aafco standard. Actually aafco itself doesn t approve or reject or have any regulatory authority at all. Do all this at a reasonable price. Why pay so much for a.

Dr bililnghurst authored groundbreaking books like give your dog a bone in 1993 and grow your pups with bones in 1998. Rice and corn are cheap ingredients. Phytates in kibble bind with zinc making zinc unavailable to the dog. Use minimal processing to preserve the benefits of raw.

Look carefully at the ingredients in your dog s food. This guide was originally developed to help control officials industry and other interested parties to better understand and interpret the aafco model regulations for pet food and specialty pet food. If not why not. Table 1 is an example of the type of information that an author or commercial food manufacturer for that matter should be able to provide.

Aafco does not regulate test approve or certify pet foods in any way. The aafco pet food committee is pleased to announce that the newly revised aafco pet and specialty pet labeling guide is now available for purchase. He s famous for creating the concept of barf bones and raw food or biologically appropriate raw or real food. Meet aafco standards as a complete and balanced dog food.

Aafco doesn t approve pet foods. He released his third book the barf diet in 2001. Even many expensive raw dog foods use a grain as filler and bulk. If raw foods are required to meet the same standards as kibble aafco standards may actually cause raw food manufacturers to do more harm than good.

The aafco essentially details what ingredients a dog food label must contain in order to claim complete and balanced nutrition for your pal at any life stage from puppy to senior. Currently aafco s requirement for zinc for example is based on the low bioavailability of zinc in kibble. Such recipes should exceed both nrc and aafco for all nutrients without exceeding the safe upper limits.