Vegetables
Stub page. Chekri et al. 2019 reports soups/purees and vegetable-based ready-to-eat meals for French infants and toddlers, but does not split root from non-root vegetables in the main trace-element table. chekri2019-french-infant-toddler-tds-trace-elements
Ranges by source, region, and variety
Pending vegetable-specific extraction. Ingredient-level pages should split root vegetables, leafy vegetables, and mixed vegetables as the evidence becomes source-backed.
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 | Ji et al. 2026. Assessing spatial variability and source identification of heavy metals in agricultural soils: A geostatistical and multivariate analysis of coastal eastern Zhejiang, China, PLOS ONE | 2026 | Peer-reviewed | Soil Cr, Pb, Cd, Hg, and As concentrations across 877 agricultural sites in Zhejiang including upland vegetable fields; provides contamination-load context for crops in this region |
| 2 | Collado-Lopez et al. 2025. Concentrations of Heavy Metals in Processed Baby Foods and Infant Formulas Worldwide: A Scoping Review, Nutrition Reviews | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | Global scoping review of Pb, Cd, tAs, and tHg in processed baby foods (75 studies, 580 products) including vegetable-based purees; provides category-level evidence map |
| 3 | 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 lead action levels for processed baby foods; sets 10 ppb Pb for non-root vegetable purees and 20 ppb for root vegetable purees |
| 4 | Uthayarajan et al. 2025. Quality and sources of food and water consumed by people with chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka: a systematic review, Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 5 | Ventura et al. 2025. Dietary Exposure to Essential and Toxic Trace Elements in the Portuguese Population: A Total Diet Study Approach, Foods | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | tAs, Cd, Pb, and Sn in 163 pooled Portuguese TDS samples including vegetables; all values below legal limits, fills EFSA monitoring data gap |
| 6 | Codex 2024. Report of the 17th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods (REP24/CF17), Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius Commission | 2024 | Government report | Codex CCCF17 session report initiating new work on a Code of Practice for Cd in foods including vegetables; provides regulatory-trajectory context for vegetable Cd limits |
| 7 | Xinghui et al. 2024. Assessment of Dietary Arsenic Exposure Levels and the Associated Health Risks in Chongqing City, China, Chinese Journal of Public Health | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 8 | Laoye et al. 2024. Assessment of heavy metal contamination in fish, fruits, and vegetables in Southwest Nigeria: A systematic review, F1000Research | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 9 | Luo 2024. ADA/VBB colorimetric method for cadmium detection in rice, milk, and vegetables with real sample measurements, unknown | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | Cd occurrence in real vegetable samples measured by a novel colorimetric ADA/VBB sensor method; provides commodity-level Cd concentrations alongside method validation |
| 10 | Zhao et al. 2024. Toxic Metals and Metalloids in Food: Current Status, Health Risks, and Mitigation Strategies, Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 11 | Altunay et al. 2023. Ultra-Sensitive Determination of Cadmium in Food and Water by Flame-AAS after a New Polyvinyl Benzyl Xanthate as an Adsorbent Based Vortex Assisted Dispersive Solid-Phase Microextraction: Multivariate Optimization, Foods 2023, 12, 3620 | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | Cd in 13 Turkish market foods including spinach, tomato, onion, and aubergine by FAAS; anomalously high values flagged as requiring cautious interpretation |
| 12 | Suomi et al. 2023. Cumulative risk assessment of the dietary heavy metal and aluminum exposure of Finnish adults, Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 13 | FDA 2022. Total Diet Study Report: Fiscal Years 2018-2020 Elements Data, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Total Diet Study Program | 2022 | Government report | Multi-element (Cd, Pb, Hg, iAs, tAs, Ni, Al, Cr, and others) concentrations in US retail vegetables as consumed; primary US population-level dietary toxic-element exposure dataset |
| 14 | Ufelle et al. 2021. Toxic Effects of Metals (Chapter 23), in Casarett & Doull’s Essentials of Toxicology, Fourth Edition, Casarett & Doull’s Essentials of Toxicology, Fourth Edition. McGraw Hill Education | 2021 | Textbook chapter | Canonical toxicology textbook chapter covering As, Cd, Pb, Hg, and other metals; identifies vegetables as a dietary exposure pathway for multiple metals |
| 15 | Chekri et al. 2019. Trace element contents in foods from the first French Total Diet Study on infants and toddlers, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis | 2019 | Peer-reviewed | Multi-element occurrence in 291 French infant foods including vegetable soups, purees, and ready-to-eat meals; category-level data without root/non-root split |
| 16 | Signes-Pastor et al. 2018. Infants’ dietary arsenic exposure during transition to solid food, Scientific Reports | 2018 | Peer-reviewed | Longitudinal infant biomarker study linking vegetable puree introduction to urinary iAs and tAs changes during weaning; US cohort |
| 17 | JECFA 2011. Cadmium (Addendum), 73rd Meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives — Safety Evaluation of Certain Food Additives and Contaminants, WHO Food Additives Series No. 64 (Cadmium addendum, pp. 305-380) | 2011 | Government report | JECFA document establishing the international Cd PTMI of 25 µg/kg BW/month; reports vegetables as a significant Cd dietary contributor across reviewed countries |
| 18 | EFSA 2010. Scientific Opinion on Lead in Food, EFSA Journal 2010;8(4):1570 | 2010 | Government report | EU Pb risk assessment identifying cereals and vegetables as dominant dietary Pb contributors; establishes no-threshold position and BMDLs for neurodevelopmental and cardiovascular endpoints |
| 19 | 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 | Operative Codex standard setting international maximum levels for Cd, Pb, and other contaminants in leafy vegetables, root vegetables, and specific commodity groups |