Abstract
Ensuring healthier pets through improved nutrient precision in pet foods Improved nutrient precision in pet foods is critical to pets, people & planet; Dennis E. Jewell, PhD from Kansas State University & Matthew I. Jackson, PhD from Hill's Pet Nutrition, explain. Pet parents require accurate labeling of the energy content of foods for their dogs and cats to feed them the appropriate amount of nutrition. However, determining the dietary energy present in food is not trivial. The difference between what pets eat and what they excrete is absorbed energy. In practice, only some pet food companies have the resources to assess the energy content in food directly. Alternatively, regulatory agencies such as the American Association of Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) provide equations based on published data for pet food companies to predict food energy levels.
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