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Heavy Metal Index

Cereal Bars

Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-20 so that an ingested source could route to it. Aliases, category, and the contamination profile have not yet been populated. Content below is minimal until a synthesis pass consolidates the literature for this ingredient.

Reason: heal-gaps: routing_unresolved entry from source jackson2012-arsenic-organic-foods-brown-rice-syrup declared ingredient/cereal-bars, no close-slug match

Triggering source: Arsenic, Organic Foods, and Brown Rice Syrup

Literature scope

The literature corpus for this ingredient is currently thin. Sources route here as ingest proceeds; once enough sources accumulate per the Part 9 synthesis trigger (n_studies ≥ 2 per metal), the synthesis pass will populate the contamination profile.

FDA TDS FY2018–FY2020 source observations

FDA measured the prepared foods named below. Each row describes that food and preparation, not every form of this ingredient. Values are µg/kg (ppb) on the FDA sample basis. ND means not detected; it is not a measured zero. Reporting limits can vary between composites. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical Results

FDA food and preparationAnalyteCompositesDetectedDetected concentrations (ppb)Reporting limits (ppb)
523: Granola bartAs3317–283
523: Granola barCd337–111
523: Granola barCr30ND in all composites50
523: Granola barPb30ND in all composites4
523: Granola bartHg30ND in all composites1
523: Granola barNi33930–130040
523: Granola barU30ND in all composites1

References

Works cited in this page’s text, in first-appearance order. See Sources for this page’s source inventory. Each title links to a source record with bibliographic details, reported findings, and document provenance.

  1. Arsenic, Organic Foods, and Brown Rice SyrupJackson BP, Taylor VF, Karagas MR, Punshon T, and Cottingham KL · Environmental Health Perspectives · 2012 · doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104619Peer-reviewed
  2. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical ResultsU.S. Food and Drug Administration · FDA Total Diet Study · 2022 · www.fda.govDataset

Sources

Source records associated with this topic. Inclusion does not establish that every finding applies to this product or ingredient. References above identify works cited in the text.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1FDA 2022. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical Results, FDA Total Diet Study2022Government datasetUS-FDA Pb, Cd, tAs, iAs, tHg, Ni, Cr, U, Sb occurrence in 3276 prepared food, beverage and water composites across 307 TDS foods, FY2018-FY2020 US collections (n=3276)
2Hidalgo et al. 2015. Toxic Trace Element Contents in Gluten-free Cereal Bars Marketed in Argentina, International Journal of Celiac Disease 3(1):12-162015Peer-reviewedAR tAs, Cd, Pb occurrence in Seventy-two commercial gluten-free cereal bars marketed in Argentina, grouped by flavor/main formulation into apple, blueberry, chocolate, coconut, honey,… (n=72)

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2e764842026-05-26state sync: 16h of daemon-stalled work — ingredient/routing/audit updates from yesterday’s interrupted tick
1d40ff22026-05-20autonomy: daemon tick 2026-05-20T10-12-12Z — gap-healing + extraction + pooling + briefings

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