Oral Electrolyte Solutions
Stub page. This bridge node exists because Dabeka et al. 2011 measured oral electrolyte solutions alongside infant formulae. These products are not one of the locked HMTc Category 1 infant-food rows, but they are relevant to infant exposure context.
Heavy Metal Index pages are written for several audiences at once. Each entry point below names where to start if you are reading this page with a specific question in mind.
- Brand legal and regulatory affairs
- Cherry-pick attack vectors on oral electrolyte solutions for pediatric use typically center on mineral-supplement sourcing (lead, cadmium, arsenic in inorganic mineral inputs) and on water-source quality. Mineral-supplier disclosure and source-water testing are the defensive core. The cited sources at the bottom of this page are the citations list, written to be quoted into a Daubert brief without further editing.
- Retailer quality and compliance
- The Federal / Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings section compares the applicable regulatory cap to cited field evidence on a like-for-like basis, with basis conversion shown when conversion is well-defined and a methodology anchor when speciation differs. The Literature Evidence Summary gives source count and confidence rating per analyte.
- Brand QA and product development
- Use the Lab Result Comparator to position a single lab value inside the cited literature. The comparator positions a single lab value inside the cited literature for pediatric oral electrolyte solutions.
- Regulators, journalists, and adversarial readers
- Every numeric claim on this page traces to a source page. The Evidence Governance note explains what this page is and is not (literature evidence, not HMT&C certification thresholds).
- HMT&C staff (internal)
- The threshold-selection arithmetic (percentile statistics, clean / dirty subcategory designation, CC eligibility) lives on the staff workbench snapshot at oral-electrolyte-solutions, not on this public page.
- dabeka2011-canada-infant-formula-lead-cadmium-aluminum — Canadian oral electrolyte solution summary: Al means 48 ng/g unflavoured and 39 ng/g flavoured, Cd at 0.01 ng/g, and Pb mean 0.16 ng/g as consumed.
Row Mapping
Keep these values separate from infant formula and food rows. They may matter for infant exposure context, especially during illness or dehydration, but they should not be pooled into formula p90 or p100 calculations.
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 | Dabeka et al. 2011. Lead, cadmium and aluminum in Canadian infant formulae, oral electrolytes and glucose solutions, Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A | 2011 | Peer-reviewed | Canadian survey reporting Pb, Cd, and Al in oral electrolyte solutions (Cd at or below 0.01 ng/g; Pb mean 0.16 ng/g); primary occurrence source for this product row |