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Milk Based Infant Formula

Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-28 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 igweze2019-trace-metals-infant-formula-nigeria declared ingredient/milk-based-infant-formula, no close-slug match

Triggering source: Appropriateness of Essentials Trace Metals in Commonly Consumed Infant Formulae in Nigeria

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

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. Appropriateness of Essentials Trace Metals in Commonly Consumed Infant Formulae in NigeriaIgweze ZN, Ekhator OC, Nwaogazie I, Frazzoli C, and Orisakwe OE · Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 7(23):4168–4175 · 2019 · doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.706Peer-reviewed

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
1Dobrzyńska et al. 2025. Analysis of the Elemental Composition of Milk Formulae: Impact on the Nutritional Status of Infants From Birth to 1 Year of Age, Biological Trace Element Research2025Peer-reviewedPL/EU tAs, Cd, tHg, Ni, Sn, Cr, Co, Cu, Mn occurrence in All powdered milk formulae available on the Polish market 2019-2023 for infants up to 12 months of age:… (n=149)
2Arellano et al. 2023. Arsenic risk assessment through dairy products ingestion, Arsenic in the Environment: Bridging Science to Practice for Sustainable Development2023Conference proceedingsAR tAs occurrence in Raw bovine, caprine, and ovine milk from 37 farms in Cordoba and Buenos Aires provinces, plus market commercial… (n=157)
3Almeida et al. 2022. Toxic Metals and Metalloids in Infant Formulas Marketed in Brazil, and Child Health Risks According to the Target Hazard Quotients and Target Cancer Risk, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(18):111782022Peer-reviewedContribution to this topic remains under review; see the source record for its reported scope.
4Igweze et al. 2020. Public Health and Paediatric Risk Assessment of Aluminium, Arsenic and Mercury in Infant Formulas Marketed in Nigeria, Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal 20(1):e63-e702020Peer-reviewedContribution to this topic remains under review; see the source record for its reported scope.
5ATSDR 2008. Toxicological Profile for Aluminum, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry2008Government reportUS Al occurrence in Synthesis of peer-reviewed human and animal toxicology, exposure, and environmental-fate data; no original sampling

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