Baby Food
Completeness scorecard
Not yet characterized — scorecard activates at 2 contributing A-tier sources.
This page is an autonomy-created stub. The routing audit identified 2 source pages in the corpus declaring ingredients: [baby-food] in their frontmatter without a dedicated page existing. Per OPERATING.md Part 3, the autonomy loop created this stub so those sources route to a defined target. The synthesis pass per CLAUDE.md Part 9 fills in the contamination profile as sources accumulate.
Heavy metal contamination profile
| Analyte | Coverage | Typical (ppb) | Confidence | Key sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pb | pending | — | — | — |
| Cd | pending | — | — | — |
| iAs | pending | — | — | — |
| tAs | pending | — | — | — |
| tHg | pending | — | — | — |
| Ni | pending | — | — | — |
| Al | pending | — | — | — |
| Cr | pending | — | — | — |
| Sn | pending | — | — | — |
| U | pending | — | — | — |
Sources
Auto-generated from source-page frontmatter. The “Used on this page for” column is populated by the orchestrator’s POPULATE-SOURCE-LEGEND action; pending entries appear as *[awaiting synthesis]*.
| # | Citation | Year | Type | Used on this page for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction 2025. Concentrations of Heavy Metals in Processed Baby Foods and Infant Formulas Worldwide: A Scoping Review, Unknown journal | 2025 | Peer reviewed review | global As, Cd, Pb, tHg occurrence in Processed infant foods and infant formula products (n=Scoping review; multiple studies synthesized) |
| 2 | Amarh et al. 2023. Health risk assessment of some selected heavy metals in infant food sold in Wa, Ghana, Heliyon | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | GH tAs, Cd, Cr, tHg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Sb occurrence in Locally and internationally produced infant formula and baby-food samples sold in Wa, Ghana (n=22) |
| 3 | Silva et al. 2022. Determination of total mercury in Spanish samples of baby food, fast food, and daily meal, Research Square (preprint, posted 2022-05-05) | 2022 | Preprint | ES tHg occurrence in Twenty-eight composite meal samples purchased in Valencia, Spain, classified into three intake categories: 13 commercial jarred baby foods… (n=28) |
| 4 | Mielech et al. 2021. Assessment of the Risk of Contamination of Food for Infants and Toddlers, Nutrients | 2021 | Review | PL/NO/US Pb, Cd, tAs, iAs, tHg occurrence in Narrative literature review of 83 publications (2004–2021, mainly October 2020–March 2021 search window) on contaminants in foods for… |
| 5 | Depa 2019. Heavy Metals in Baby Foods and Cereal Products, Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education | 2019 | Peer-reviewed | Pb, Cd occurrence in Baby foods and cereal products, including milk powder and cereal-based products (n=63) |
| 6 | BfR 2018. EU maximum levels for cadmium in food for infants and young children sufficient - Exposure to lead should fundamentally be reduced to the achievable minimum, BfR Opinion No. 026/2018 | 2018 | Government report | DE/EU Cd, Pb occurrence in BfR assessment of German Federal Control Plan 2015 and Monitoring 2015 occurrence data for foods for infants and… (n=522) |
| 7 | De et al. 2017. Occurrence of cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic in prepared meals in Italy: Potential relevance for intake assessment, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis | 2017 | Peer-reviewed | IT Cd, Pb, tHg, tAs occurrence in Seventeen pooled prepared-meal composites collected from Italian baby food, school canteen, office canteen, fast food, duplicate-portion, vegetarian, and… (n=17) |
| 8 | FSA 2014. Survey of metals and other elements in commercial infant foods, infant formula and non-infant specific foods, Food Standards Agency report | 2014 | Government report | GB Al, Sb, tAs, iAs, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, Mn, tHg, Ni, Se, Sn, Zn occurrence in Forty-seven infant formula samples, 200 commercial infant foods, and 50 composite ‘other foods’ samples purchased from UK retail… (n=297) |
| 9 | Meharg et al. 2008. Levels of arsenic in rice - literature review, Food Standards Agency contract C101045 | 2008 | Government report | UK tAs, iAs occurrence in Food Standards Agency-commissioned literature review and secondary tabulation of published, FSA, and University of Aberdeen rice arsenic data,… |
| 10 | Committee on Toxicity of 2003. COT statement on a survey of metals in infant food, Committee on Toxicity statement | 2003 | Government report | GB Al, Sb, tAs, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, tHg, Ni, Se, Sn, Zn occurrence in Commercial UK baby foods and formulae, including infant formulae, manufactured baby foods, desserts, rusks, and infant drinks, surveyed… (n=189) |
| 11 | Dabeka et al. 2003. Survey of total mercury in total diet food composites and an estimation of the dietary intake of mercury by adults and children from two Canadian cities, 1998-2000, Food Additives & Contaminants | 2003 | Peer-reviewed | CA tHg occurrence in Total mercury in 259 total-diet food composites prepared from retail foods purchased in Whitehorse in January-February 1998 and… (n=259) |
Page history
The five most recent substantive edits to this page. The full version history lives in git; when DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.
| Commit | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ae6c129 | 2026-07-01 | feat(auth): large login + role-based signup screens (design, burgundy) |