Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-30 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: HMTc Cat 7 row 12 taxonomy destination existed in products/index.md but had no page. Created during fan-out repair 2026-05-30.
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.
Literature Evidence Summary
The table below summarizes what the peer-reviewed and government literature cited on this page reports for heavy-metal concentrations in Mixed Meals / Prepared Foods. 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 | Mixed Meals / Prepared Foods (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 | Mixed Meals / Prepared Foods (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 | Mixed Meals / Prepared Foods (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 | Mixed Meals / Prepared Foods (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 |
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 | authors 2026. (18.1%) and Salmonella enterica (16.9%). Strong biofilm formation was detected in 81 isolates (48.8%), particularly, Peer-reviewed article | 2026 | Peer-reviewed | US Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 2 | authors 2025. Levels of Rare Earth Elements in Food and Human Dietary Exposure:, Peer-reviewed article | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | US tHg, Cd, Pb, tAs, Ni, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 3 | authors 2025. The ICP-MS Study on the Release of Toxic Trace Elements from, Peer-reviewed article | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | US MeHg, tHg, Cd, Pb, iAs, Ni, Al, Sn, Cr occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 4 | Vegetables et al. 2025. Vegetables and Beneficial Roles, Peer-reviewed article | 2025 | Peer-reviewed | US Pb, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 5 | Харченко 2024. САДОВОДСТВО, ОВОЩЕВОДСТВО, ВИНОГРАДАРСТВО И ЛЕКАРСТВЕННЫЕ КУЛЬТУРЫ, Peer-reviewed article | 2024 | Peer-reviewed | US Cd, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 6 | authors 2023. Commercially Prepared and Home Prepared Infant Fruit and, Peer-reviewed article | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | US Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 7 | authors 2023. The Stability of Phenolic Compounds in Fruit, Berry,, Peer-reviewed article | 2023 | Peer-reviewed | US Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 8 | authors 2022. benefits, and availability to industry. Five smoothie formulations were produced and analyzed for, Peer-reviewed article | 2022 | Peer-reviewed | US Cd, Pb, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 9 | authors 2022. Sweet Potato Is Not Simply an Abundant Food Crop: A, Peer-reviewed article | 2022 | Peer-reviewed | US Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 10 | Hwang et al. 2022. Risk Assessment and Determination of Heavy Metals in Home Meal Replacement Products by Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry and Direct Mercury Analyzer, Foods | 2022 | Peer-reviewed | KR Pb, Cd, tAs, Sn, tHg, MeHg occurrence in Home meal replacement products purchased from convenience and grocery stores in the Republic of Korea from January to… (n=480) |
| 11 | authors 2020. lead, cadmium, mercury, aluminium, iron, nickel, bulging them metal packaging materials represents 15% of the total, Peer-reviewed article | 2020 | Peer-reviewed | US tHg, Cd, Pb, tAs, Ni, Al, Sn, Cr occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 12 | authors 2018. by the accumulation of various heavy metals [24–26], polycyclic aromatic hydro-, Peer-reviewed article | 2018 | Peer-reviewed | US tHg, Cd, Pb, tAs, Ni, Al, Sn, Cr occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 13 | authors 2017. through complex, environmentally mediated pathways. The exposure. For example, complementary foods for young, Peer-reviewed article | 2017 | Peer-reviewed | US tAs, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 14 | authors 2016. Formulation and nutritional evaluation of a healthy vegetable, Peer-reviewed article | 2016 | Peer-reviewed | US tHg, Cd, Pb, tAs, Al occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 15 | authors 2016. tance of vegetables. The first, offering infants a high variety of vegetables at weaning,, Peer-reviewed article | 2016 | Peer-reviewed | US Pb, Al, Sn occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
| 16 | Reference Document for the 2010. Best Available Techniques (BAT), Peer-reviewed article | 2010 | Peer-reviewed | US tHg, Cd, Pb, Ni, Al, Cr occurrence in Not mechanically resolved from the PDF; see Key numbers for source-reported sample descriptors. |
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.
| Commit | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| c679df8 | 2026-06-08 | chore: snapshot FRANK generated layer to clean baseline (mechanical history-table + evidence-register regen; no synthesis changes) |
| 8707c66 | 2026-06-05 | frank: dashboard + gap-metric + ledger refresh |
| 140e84e | 2026-06-03 | refresh manual fetch generated outputs |
| 315a7b8 | 2026-06-02 | chore: refresh generated outputs after June 2 ingest |
| 566c7b2 | 2026-06-02 | codex sprint 2026-06-02 10:03: end-of-fire cleanup |
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