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There is no provision in the rule for other ingredients providing the Vitamin K. Several companies have confirmed. Evo, Solid Gold and Canidea.  If the food is greater than 25% fish K3 must be added.

Any food that is less than 25% fish on a DM basis should not be name Pure Sea or Salmon TunaChovy

these foods are marketed as fish-based foods and they are not except for EVO so is Orijen 6 fish less than 25% fish?

I received this just now: "Thank you for your inquiry about Vitamin K and the PURE sea cat formula. Vitamin K needs to be supplemented in a cat food when the diet is more than 25% fish. If the fish makes up less than 25%, a supplement is not necessary as they get adequate vitamin K from other...

Solid Gold was very upfront. They have several canned fish foods that are complete. The formulator said point blank, "if any cat food is 25% or greaert in fish, they must add K3 no matter what"

Really?? Not sure. A certain Canadian company does nothing but lie and nothing is done about it.

I have a call and email into the vitamin expert at AAFCO it is a state official in Minnesota. Only EVO was completely upfront about this. I spoke to Felidae and Fromm and got very scripted answers. EVO was very frank about it. Earthborn was too but fumbled over the type. I plan on calling...

Natura told me this morning that it is in EVO because it is required no matter what the natural levels are from ingredients.

"AAFCO regulations require the synthetic Menadione to be used in cat foods containing more than 25% fish (dry matter). It would not matter if the cat food has sufficient vitamin K sourced from food (spinach, olive oil)…regulations require the addition of Menadione to cat foods containing high...

No...the law is if the food is 25% or more of fish then K3 MUST be added. MUST, there is no test. I think what is happening is that some food advertised as fish-based are actually not. Wouldn't you expect Salmon TunaChovy from Fromm to be a fish protein-based food?

Yes that is correct any vitamin k must be the artificial one vitamin k3 What is confusing me is why other fish based foods dont list it. Only EVO. Earthborn lists "Supplemental Vitamin K" It could be because fish ingredients are below 25%.

Yes and no. It is required in cat foods wet and dry where fish is more than 25% of the ingredients. And only K3 is allowed. There is no requirement for dogs at all but if the maker chooses they must use K3 as well.

As I understand the law, when making a fish-based food where fish is 25% or more of the ingredients the manufacturer must use Vitamin K3. This applies only to cat food not dog food and both canned and dry foods. I have looked at a bunch of foods that are almost entirely fish and only a couple...