AFFCO has three statements they will put on a bag: «
Animal Feeding Trials» — This tells you the food was fed to real dogs or cats and that they did well on it for 6 months as adult dogs or have grown well as puppies or kittens.
If it says, «animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate that [product] provides complete and balanced nutrition,» it was analyzed in a lab and tested in
animal feeding trials.
We would be more comfortable if
animal feeding trials had been used.
But you should be aware that this food passed AAFCO for the company based on nutrient profiles instead of using
animal feeding trials.
Safety and nutritional assessment of GM plants and derived food and feed: the role of
animal feeding trials.
Safety and nutritional assessment of GM plants and derived food and feed: the role of
animal feeding trials.
EFSA GMO Panel Working Group on
Animal Feeding Trials.
Assessment of the health impact of GM plant diets in long - term and multigenerational
animal feeding trials: a literature review.
At present, there have been no studies on allergenicity and toxicity of Golden Rice, which should be first established in
animal feeding trials before feeding trials on humans commence.
The «gold standard» to receive the AAFCO statement is
the animal feeding trial method.
Not exact matches
Among the panel's recommendations are calls for more rigorous «intergeneration»
animal feeding studies, a halt on
trials conducted outside public institutes, and the removal of advisers with conflicts of interest from regulatory bodies.
In our clinical
trials,
animals are generally
fed the formula one time.
Formulated diets are created by following nutrient requirements for specific
animals but are not studied in
feeding trials prior to being sold.
To conduct a food
trial, a pet is
fed a novel protein (one to which the
animal has had no previous exposure) limited ingredient diet or a hydrolyzed protein (the protein has been broken down into pieces too small to cause a reaction) diet.
All Ziwi Peak
feeding trials or research programs involving
animals are conducted using in - home testing protocols, often recruiting the voluntary services of our employee's pets, as well as the pets of our loyal customers.
If a pet food company chooses the
feeding trial method to say their product is nutritionallly adequate, the label will read something similar to, «
Animal feeding tests using AAFCO procedures substantiate that Brand Y Adult dog food provides complete and balanced nutrition for maintenance of adult dogs.»
In generational studies, where
animals were kept on the same food for three to five generations, researchers at the University of California at Davis found that some foods that pass
feeding trials still won't support
animals over the long term.
This allows them to take the dog home which saves
animal control the responsibility of caring for the
animal,
feeding the
animal and taking up shelter space while the dog and owners await
trial.