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Heavy Metal Index

Infant Oat Cereal

Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-17 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 trace2025-trace-element-intake-dairy-free declared ingredient/infant-oat-cereal, no close-slug match

Triggering source: trace2025-trace-element-intake-dairy-free

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.

References

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  1. 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)

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)
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with watertAs10ND in all composites3
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with waterCd112.11
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with waterCr10ND in all composites50
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with waterPb10ND in all composites4
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with watertHg10ND in all composites1
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with waterNi1133040
323: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dry, prepared with waterU111.51
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, drytAs7721–463
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dryCd7711–141
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dryCr70ND in all composites50
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dryPb70ND in all composites4
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, drytHg70ND in all composites1
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dryNi771600–270040
764: BF, cereal, oatmeal, dryU777.9–101

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