Rice Cereal
This is a structural ingredient node created so product pages can link to a real wiki target. Occurrence values remain pending until a source is promoted for this ingredient.
Routing
This node is linked from baby-cereals-dry-rice-based.
Contamination Profile State
The machine-readable contamination profile is pending. Ingredient-level values belong here once parsed; finished-product values belong on the relevant product-category page.
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 | FDA 2025. Action Levels for Lead in Processed Food Intended for Babies and Young Children: Guidance for Industry, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Human Foods Program | 2025 | Government guidance | FDA Closer to Zero Pb action levels for baby foods including rice-cereal-based products, regulatory context for Pb limits |
| 2 | Meli et al. 2024. Chemical characterization of baby food consumed in Italy, PLOS ONE | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | Measured Al, tAs, Cd, tHg, Ni, Pb, and Sn in cream of rice and other European baby foods (n=25); Cd and Pb below LOD in all samples |
| 3 | FDA 2020. Inorganic Arsenic in Rice Cereals for Infants: Action Level; Guidance for Industry, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Federal Register Notice (Docket FDA-2016-D-1099) | 2020 | Government report | Establishes the US FDA action level for iAs in infant rice cereals at 100 ppb (dry weight basis), the primary regulatory limit for this commodity |
| 4 | Signes-Pastor et al. 2018. Infants’ dietary arsenic exposure during transition to solid food, Scientific Reports | 2018 | Peer-reviewed | Longitudinal biomarker study linking rice cereal introduction to elevated urinary iAs species in US infants during weaning transition |
| 5 | Signes-Pastor et al. 2016. Inorganic arsenic in rice-based products for infants and young children, Food Chemistry | 2016 | Peer-reviewed | Measured iAs in rice-based infant and young-child products (EU and US markets); primary occurrence data supporting the rice cereal iAs signal |
| 6 | Codex 1995. General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in Food and Feed (CXS 193-1995), Codex Alimentarius (Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme) | 1995 | Government report | Codex international maximum levels for iAs, Cd, Pb, and Sn applicable to rice-based infant food matrices |