Literature scope
No sources are listed for this oral-care row. Toothpaste concentrations filed on the children’s toothpaste page are not measurements of this row.
Direct answer
For the question of whether toothpaste contains lead, this oral-care row covers toothpaste, gel, powder, and tablets, and it does not name retail brands. No filed source on this row prints a lead, cadmium, arsenic, or mercury concentration in a finished dentifrice. Massarsky et al. 2025 assessed 50 toothpastes and excluded three tooth powders from that assessment (Health risk implications of heavy metals in toothpaste, DOI 10.18332/pht/207273), and the finished-toothpaste figures are on Toothpaste (Cat 2).
v2.2 Step Zero scaffold — Category 20 (Oral Care), Row 1. New row from the 2026-06-09 whole-taxonomy completeness audit; carries no candidate values yet. Routing destination; sources populate it as ingest proceeds, then synthesis fills the evidence sections.
Sources
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