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In the future, households with pets such as dogs and cats are expected to be able to feed food with a better nutritional balance than before.

The Rural Development Administration has established feed nutrition standards for companion animals that fit the domestic situation.

Reporter Choi Myung-shin reports.

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Choi Ye-jin, who keeps her dogs "Doo-bi" and "Sae-bi," is worried about feed these days.

Both of them have bad joints, so they're feeding them hospital prescriptions,
This is because the exact ingredients of the
feed are unknown, and there is no standard for the appropriate amount.

In particular, domestic feed does not have a nutritional standard, so it is sometimes necessary to refer to foreign feed.

[Choi Yejin / Companion: For example, people need to eat a few grams of protein, but animals don't have that standard. / I don't think they know how much they need to eat.]

Companions are bound to have different nutritional standards depending on the type of animal and the stage of growth.

Foreign countries such as the United States and Europe have established feed nutrition standards and used them industrially, but we have not.

In response, the Rural Development Administration, along with pet nutrition research groups and experts, has come up with feed nutrition standards suitable for the domestic situation.

We specified the nutrients and recommended content needed to match the growth stages of dogs and cats.

[So Kyung-min / Agricultural Research Team, Animal Welfare Research Team, Rural Development Administration] We set different nutritional standards for each of these stages: adult dogs, adult animals, or growing or breeding. I presented the nutritional level that is essential.]

The setting of nutritional standards is expected to warm the domestic pet food industry.

[Park Chang-woo, head of pet food manufacturer's research team: Domestic products will now produce products with one nutritional standard, and the uniform quality and quality of products that meet the nutritional standards will be improved, so I think it will be much more helpful for exports.]

As the government has selected the pet food industry as one of the four major industries, targeting the global pet food market worth 156 trillion won is expected to gain more momentum.

I'm YTN's Choi Myung Shin.