“…Food intake did not change during treatment. 61 In another study, four groups of nine normal European shorthair cats were fed a wet veterinary renal diet with lanthanum carbonate octahydrate added at 0, 1.5, 4.5 or 7.5 g/kg of complete food. Similar to the normal cats receiving maintenance food and lanthanum treatment described in the previous study, veterinary food intake was not changed among treatment groups, apparent phosphorus digestibility decreased, intestinal phosphorus absorption was decreased due to increased fecal phosphorus excretion and urinary phosphorus excretion was decreased.…”