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Infant Rice Cereal

Provisional scaffold. This page was created by the autonomy loop on 2026-05-20 so that 2 source page(s) declaring products: [infant-rice-cereal] had a routing destination. The HMTc taxonomy row, clean/contaminated pairing, primary metals of concern, and detailed scope have not yet been locked. Content below grows as the synthesis pass consolidates the literature.

Who this page is for

This page is for brand legal, retailer-compliance, regulator, and HMTc staff readers who need the current literature record for Infant Rice Cereal. It is a public evidence surface, not a certification-threshold table. Brand and retailer readers should use it to see which cited sources actually support this product row, while HMTc staff should use it to keep row fit, market, basis, and analyte species visible before any standards-workbench use.

Methodology

This page follows the Part 6 product-page rules: values stay in the source-reported basis, non-detect handling follows the source, and analyte species are not substituted. Infant and child evidence is kept separate from general-population evidence when age band or product form affects exposure. Produce and food evidence is kept jurisdiction- and market-aware, with fresh, dried, canned, infused, or processed forms separated when basis changes. Public wiki prose summarizes the literature; percentile math and HMTc candidate limits remain in the staff 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 Infant Rice Cereal. 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.

AnalyteSubcategoryReported concentration rangeDetection rateApplicable regulatory capSourcesConfidenceBasis
PbInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
CdInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
iAsInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
tAsInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
MeHgInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
tHgInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
NiInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
AlInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
Cr-VIInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported
SnInfant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded)No concentration data loaded for this analyteSample-level detection rate not reportedNo applicable cap loaded0data gapBasis not reported

Source Evidence Inventory

Routed sources are still sparse, so this page preserves the product row and waits for the source-routing layer to add citations. At this synthesis stage, the inventory is used to distinguish direct finished-product occurrence data from broader dietary, ingredient, exposure, or review context. Sources that do not resolve product form, jurisdiction, basis, or analyte species remain visible here but should not be treated as benchmark-ready rows until structured extraction and routing confirm fit.

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 control levers for Infant Rice Cereal start with product identity and lot-level evidence: keep the product form, ingredient contributors, market, and analytical basis attached to each test result. Sourcing and formulation controls should focus on ingredients or mineral/colorant/botanical inputs named by the routed sources, while finished-product testing remains the check on combined formulation, processing, and packaging effects. Where the current sources are review or exposure-context sources, the immediate lever is better row-specific occurrence testing rather than broad cross-category inference.

How standards math uses this page

The percentile arithmetic that informs HMTc thresholds lives in data/workbench/standards/infant-rice-cereal.md (the staff snapshot). This public page reports literature evidence; the staff workbench applies the methodology in CLAUDE.md Part 19 to produce candidate threshold values. The gap between literature-baseline and HMTc threshold is named honestly on the workbench, not hidden.

Historical recalls and enforcement

No row-specific public recall or enforcement synthesis has been promoted for Infant Rice Cereal in this pass. Regulatory references on this page should be read as context unless a source ties an event to this exact product scope and analyte. Future enforcement prose should remain event-framed and should not convert source mentions into brand rankings.

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]*.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1Vincevica-Gaile et al. 2024. Total Concentration of Arsenic in Commercial Infant/Toddler Food: A Preliminary Study in Libya, BIO Web of Conferences2024Peer-reviewedLY tAs occurrence in Commercial infant/toddler foods purchased in supermarkets in Sabha, Tripoli, and Benghazi, Libya. (n=36)
2EFSA 2021. Chronic dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic, EFSA Journal2021Government reportEU iAs, tAs occurrence in 13,608 analytical results on inorganic arsenic in food and drinking water (7,623 drinking water; 5,985 food) submitted to… (n=13608)
3Shi et al. 2020. Avoiding Rice-Based Cadmium and Inorganic Arsenic in Infant Diets Through Selection of Products Low in Concentration of These Contaminants, Exposure and Health 13:229-2352020Peer-reviewedUK/EU Cd, iAs occurrence in Rice-based products available on the UK market, including products labeled for infants and generic rice products that infants… (n=Rice-based baby foods, generic rice crackers/cakes/cereals, and UK-purchased polished rice by origin; exact per-category n is figure/table dependent.)
4Shi et al. 2020. Rice Grain Cadmium Concentrations in the Global Supply-Chain, Exposure and Health 12:869-8762020Peer-reviewedGLOBAL Cd occurrence in Global polished white market-rice supply-chain samples purchased from retailers across 32 countries on six continents; country-level n and… (n=2270)
5Signes-Pastor et al. 2018. OPEN Infants’ dietary arsenic exposure during transition to solid food, Scientific Reports2018During the transition to solid foods, infants’ urinary arsenic concentrations increase substantially, with rice cereal emerging as the dominant dietary…
6Signes-Pastor et al. 2018. Infants’ dietary arsenic exposure during transition to solid food, Scientific Reports2018Journal articleCited reference from Scientific Reports
7Shibata et al. 2016. Risk Assessment of Arsenic in Rice Cereal and Other Dietary Sources for Infants and Toddlers in the U.S., International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health2016Peer reviewed journalCited reference from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
8FDA 2013. Analytical Results from Inorganic Arsenic in Rice and Rice Products Sampling, September 2013, U.S. Food and Drug Administration2013RegulationUS iAs, tAs concentrations (n=1300)

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.

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