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Heavy Metal Index
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Heavy metals in Yogurt and cultured dairy

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

1 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 5. 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.

Literature scope

No sources are catalogued for this row yet.

Evidence summary

The table below summarizes what the peer-reviewed and government literature cited on this page reports for heavy-metal concentrations in Yogurt and cultured dairy. Values are pulled directly from cited sources without re-aggregation. This page publishes literature evidence only, not certification thresholds.

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.

AnalyteSubcategoryReported concentration rangeDetection rateApplicable regulatory capSourcesConfidenceBasis
lead (Pb)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
cadmium (Cd)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
total arsenic (tAs)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
inorganic arsenic (iAs)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
total mercury (tHg)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
aluminum (Al)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
tin (Sn)Yogurt and cultured dairy (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported

Sources

Sources catalogued for this page. The last column says how each source is used here.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1Abdel-Rahman et al. 2019. Heavy metals content in some non-alcoholic beverages (carbonated drinks, flavored yogurt drinks, and juice drinks) of the Egyptian markets, Toxicology Reports2019Peer-reviewedEG Cd, Pb, Cr, Ni, Fe, Mn, Cu occurrence in Twelve flavored yogurt drinks, eighteen juice drinks, and twenty-four carbonated drinks collected from Egyptian local markets between January… (n=54)

Update history

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.

CommitDateChangeDescription
bff8abb722026-07-27correction2 sections added; narrative text revised
c794d6b502026-06-08major2 sections added; narrative text revised

Update history

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.

CommitDateChangeDescription
b01ec52c32026-08-04major1 section added; narrative text revised
3a67e13072026-08-02minorNarrative text revised
91c7d55912026-08-02minorNarrative text revised
90a2f9a382026-07-30major1 section added and 1 removed; narrative text revised
bff8abb722026-07-27correction2 sections added; narrative text revised