Breakfast cereal — non-rice (wheat, oat, corn, mixed-grain)
Step 0 scope-locked row for HMTc Taxonomy v2.0 Category 3 (Grains, Cereals, and Rice Products), Row 5. Created to give the broad breakfast-cereals declarations a routable destination (Check 3 backlog resolution). Scope locked (variant_type: independent); per-analyte threshold numbers come from the staff Standards Workbench.
Literature scope
Routable destination for source pages declaring products: [breakfast-cereal-non-rice] and a fan-out target for broad breakfast-cereals declarations. Speciation (iAs vs tAs) is non-substitutable.
Methodology
Reports what cited sources say about heavy-metal concentrations in this row. Basis preserved; percentile arithmetic stays on the staff Standards Workbench.
Literature Evidence Summary
Literature Evidence Summary
The table below summarizes what the peer-reviewed and government literature cited on this page reports for heavy-metal concentrations in non-rice grain-based product. Values are pulled directly from cited sources without re-aggregation; pooling, percentile selection, and threshold math sit in the staff Standards Workbench rather than this public page.
Methodology rules for speciation, basis preservation, non-detect handling, and source pooling are stated in the Methodology section above and apply to every row below.
| Analyte | Subcategory | Reported concentration range | Detection rate | Applicable regulatory cap | Sources | Confidence | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pb | non-rice grain-based (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Cd | non-rice grain-based (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
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 | Hassan et al. 2025. Cornflakes as a source of dietary metal exposure in Lebanon: Risk assessment and regulatory compliance, RSC Advances | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 2 | Oduro et al. 2023. Health risks of potentially toxic metals in cereal-based breakfast meals in the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana, Discover Food 3:25 | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 3 | Staff et al. 2023. China Releases the Standard for Maximum Levels of Contaminants in Foods, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service GAIN Report CH2023-0040, FAIRS Subject Report, March 20, 2023 | 2023 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 4 | Saraiva et al. 2021. Speciation analysis of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) in bread and breakfast cereals using species-specific isotope dilution and HPLC-ICP-MS, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis | 2021 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 5 | Schaefer et al. 2020. Cadmium: Mitigation strategies to reduce dietary exposure, Journal of Food Science | 2020 | Review | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 6 | Hernandez et al. 2019. Cr(VI) and Cr(III) in milk, dairy and cereal products and dietary exposure assessment, Food Additives & Contaminants Part B: Surveillance | 2019 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 7 | Abebe et al. 2017. Assessment of essential and non-essential metals in popcorn and cornflake commercially available in Ethiopia, Chemistry International 3(3):268-276 | 2017 | Peer-reviewed | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 8 | EFSA 2015. Scientific Opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of nickel in food and drinking water, EFSA Journal 2015;13(2):4002, 202 pp. | 2015 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 9 | Baxter et al. 2015. Total Diet Study of metals and other elements in food, Food and Environment Research Agency report for the UK Food Standards Agency, Fera report 15/06, project FS102081 | 2015 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 10 | UK Committee on Toxicity 2013. Statement on the potential risks from aluminium in the infant diet, Committee on Toxicity (COT), Statement 2013/01, June 2013 | 2013 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 11 | EFSA 2010. Scientific Opinion on Lead in Food, EFSA Journal 2010;8(4):1570 | 2010 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
| 12 | IARC 1990. Chromium, Nickel and Welding, IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Volume 49 | 1990 | Government report | [awaiting synthesis] |
Page history
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