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Heavy Metal Index
A pale semi-firm cheese block and slices beside a cut white mozzarella ball illustrating dairy cheese product-format context.

Heavy metals in Cheese

This page reports published measurements and their limitations. Compare values only when the product form, measurement basis, and metal species match.

3 related source records are associated with this category. This is a coverage count, not a measure of scientific confidence. References identify works cited in the text.

v2.1 Step Zero scaffold — Category 24 (Dairy and Milk Products), Row 4. This row is defined in the taxonomy and its Step Zero lock (docs/governance/category-24-step0-lock.md) but carries no candidate values yet. It is a routing destination. Sources populate it as ingest proceeds, after which a synthesis pass fills the evidence sections.

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Sources

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#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1Erol et al. 2025. Safety and Nutritional Profile of Traditional Turkish Cheeses: A Comprehensive Study on Their Mineral Content, Heavy Metal Contamination, and Health Risks of Aho, Golot, and Telli, Food Science & Nutrition2025Peer-reviewedTR Pb, tHg, Al, tAs, Cd, Ni, Cr occurrence in 10 samples each of three traditional Turkish cheeses (Aho, Golot, Telli) collected from local markets in Trabzon, Turkey… (n=30)
2Ibrahim et al. 2024. Heavy metals in raw milk and Egyptian cheese types, Open Veterinary Journal2024Peer-reviewedEG Pb, Cd, tHg, tAs, Cu, Fe, Zn occurrence in 100 raw bovine milk samples and 100 Egyptian cheese samples (25 each Karish, Domiati, Ras) collected from Alexandria… (n=200)
3Arellano 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)

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The five most recent substantive edits to this page, classified major (evidence or structure moved), correction (a published value or statement was wrong and has been fixed), or minor (narrative rewritten without changing the underlying evidence). Each description is derived from what the edit did to this page; the linked commit is the authoritative record, routine regeneration passes are excluded, and the full version history lives in git. When DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

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