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, and regulator readers who need the current literature record for Infant Rice Cereal. It is a public evidence surface, not a certification-threshold table. Readers should use it to see which cited sources actually support this product row and to keep row fit, market, basis, and analyte species visible.
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. This page reports the literature; certification thresholds are set separately under the certification program, not on this page.
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. 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.
| Analyte | Subcategory | Reported concentration range | Detection rate | Applicable regulatory cap | Sources | Confidence | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pb | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Cd | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| iAs | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| tAs | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| MeHg | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| tHg | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Ni | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Al | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Cr-VI | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis not reported |
| Sn | Infant Rice Cereal (no contributing evidence loaded) | No concentration data loaded for this analyte | Sample-level detection rate not reported | No applicable cap loaded | 0 | data gap | Basis 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
This page reports what the peer-reviewed and government literature says about heavy-metal concentrations in this product category; it publishes no certification thresholds of its own. Certification criteria are set separately under the Heavy Metal Tested & Certified program at heavymetaltested.com, which reads this page as its literature baseline. The two are kept apart by design, so this page remains an independent record of the evidence rather than a justification for any threshold.
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]*.
| # | Citation | Year | Type | Used on this page for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vincevica-Gaile et al. 2024. Total Concentration of Arsenic in Commercial Infant/Toddler Food: A Preliminary Study in Libya, BIO Web of Conferences | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | LY tAs occurrence in Commercial infant/toddler foods purchased in supermarkets in Sabha, Tripoli, and Benghazi, Libya. (n=36) |
| 2 | EFSA 2021. Chronic dietary exposure to inorganic arsenic, EFSA Journal | 2021 | Government report | EU 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) |
| 3 | Lodhi et al. 2021. Evaluation of the Methyl and Inorganic Mercury in Infant Formula Milk and Cereals Samples: Estimated Risk Assessment in Children under 2.0 Years, ACS Food Science & Technology | 2021 | Peer-reviewed | PK tHg, MeHg occurrence in 20 infant formula milk samples (starting, follow-on, grown-up) and 10 baby cereal samples purchased in Hyderabad, Pakistan (n=30) |
| 4 | Shi 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 13:229-235 | 2020 | Peer-reviewed | UK/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.) |
| 5 | Shi et al. 2020. Rice Grain Cadmium Concentrations in the Global Supply-Chain, Exposure and Health 12:869-876 | 2020 | Peer-reviewed | GLOBAL 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) |
| 6 | Shibata 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 Health | 2016 | Peer reviewed journal | Cited reference from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
| 7 | FDA 2013. Analytical Results from Inorganic Arsenic in Rice and Rice Products Sampling, September 2013, U.S. Food and Drug Administration | 2013 | Regulation | US iAs, tAs concentrations (n=1300) |
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.
| Commit | Date | Change | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| a8052bb | 2026-08-09 | major | 12 sections added; narrative text revised |