Infant Food Vegetables
Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-20 so that an ingested source could route to it. The HMTc taxonomy row, clean/contaminated pairing, primary metals of concern, and detailed scope have not yet been locked. Content below is minimal until a synthesis pass or taxonomy review consolidates the literature for this product class.
Reason: heal-gaps: routing_unresolved entry from source open2017-open-infants-dietary-arsenic-a declared product/infant-food-vegetables, no close-slug match
Triggering source: open2017-open-infants-dietary-arsenic-a
Literature scope
The literature corpus for this product class is currently thin. Sources route here as ingest proceeds; once enough sources accumulate, the synthesis pass will populate the Literature Evidence Summary, Source Evidence Inventory, and downstream sections per CLAUDE.md Part 6.
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 | Signes-Pastor et al. 2018. Infants’ dietary arsenic exposure during transition to solid food, Scientific Reports | 2018 | Journal article | [awaiting synthesis] |
Who this page is for
This provisional page is for vegetable-based infant-food evidence that has not yet been placed into locked root-vegetable puree, non-root vegetable puree, mixed-meal, or broader infant-solid-food rows. Brand legal and retailer readers should treat it as an evidence-routing surface, not a standards table. HMTc staff should use it to keep weaning-period vegetable exposure visible while resolving finished-product matrix and basis.
Methodology
The current source is an infant exposure study with urinary arsenic speciation, not a finished vegetable-food concentration survey. open2017-open-infants-dietary-arsenic-a reports associations between vegetable intake and urinary inorganic arsenic during the transition to solid foods. This supports exposure-context prose and prioritization for vegetable infant-food testing, but it does not provide product-level vegetable puree concentrations. Inorganic arsenic, MMA, DMA, and arsenobetaine are kept separate, and vegetable evidence is not interchangeable with rice-cereal evidence.
Literature Evidence Summary
Pending: regenerated by tools/evidence/apply-product-hmtc-evidence-summaries.mjs once sources route and the pooling engine emits aggregate rows for this product category.
Source Evidence Inventory
open2017-open-infants-dietary-arsenic-a contributes a 15-infant prospective cohort with urinary arsenic speciation and parental diet records. The source reports a positive association between vegetable intake and urinary inorganic arsenic at follow-up, while also identifying rice cereal as the stronger exposure pathway. For this page, it establishes vegetable infant foods as relevant to arsenic exposure review, but its urine endpoint and small sample size mean it should remain contextual until finished-product vegetable data are routed.
Broad Product Context: Author-Scope Index
Pending: regenerated by tools/evidence/apply-product-broad-context.mjs once broad-scope sources route to this page.
Federal/Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings
Pending: regenerated by tools/apply-product-crosswalk-sections.mjs once applicable_regulations are identified and field-finding evidence is pooled.
Levers to reduce contamination
The practical lever at this stage is row-specific testing and ingredient identity preservation. Vegetable infant foods should not be treated as a single homogeneous group: root vegetables, leafy greens, mixed vegetable meals, and rice-containing blends have different likely drivers and should keep separate sourcing and test records. The current evidence does not name a specific vegetable species or mitigation route, so finished-product occurrence studies are needed before this page can rank agronomic or processing interventions.
How standards math uses this page
The percentile arithmetic that informs HMTc thresholds for this product category lives on the staff Standards Workbench (data/workbench/standards/<this-slug>.md). This public page reports literature evidence; the workbench applies the methodology in CLAUDE.md Part 19. The gap between literature evidence and HMTc thresholds is named honestly on the workbench, not hidden.
Historical recalls and enforcement
No vegetable-infant-food recall or enforcement synthesis has been promoted for this provisional page. The current source supports exposure relevance during weaning, not a regulatory event or product violation. Enforcement history should be added only when a source ties an event to a clear vegetable infant-food row.
Page history
The five most recent substantive edits to this page. 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.