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Heavy Metal Index

Pickled Mushrooms

This page reports published measurements and their limitations. Compare values only when the product form, measurement basis, and metal species match.

1 related source records are associated with this category. This is a coverage count, not a measure of scientific confidence. References identify works cited in the text.

Merged into Category 4, Row 18 (wild and processed-wild mushrooms). Under the v2.1 reorganization (category-4-step0-amendment-1, 2026-06-08), pickled wild mushrooms are processed-wild and pool into the contaminated side at Wild Mushrooms. This page is retained as a redirect; its evidence routes to Row 18.

Reason: merge-enhance ingest of pankavec2019-pickled-mushrooms-poland-minerals declared products/pickled-mushrooms which did not exist

Triggering source: Mineral Constituents of Conserved White Button Mushrooms: Similarities and Differences

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.

Who this page is for

Pending. The brand-legal, retailer-compliance, HMTc-internal, and regulator audiences are listed; this section will frame what each is looking for on this page.

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

Hand-curated section. Populated by the synthesis pass as sources contribute.

Supporting evidence and scope

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.

Controls and mitigation

Pending synthesis. Practical interventions to reduce heavy-metal load — ordered by impact magnitude across sourcing, agronomic, processing, formulation, testing-QC, and packaging-storage levers — will be populated from contributing ingredient pages’ Mitigation options sections and the relevant mitigation/ pages. The Levers section is the brand-legal-actionable surface of this page.

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 heavymetalcertified.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

Pending synthesis. Public-record regulatory events for this product category will be summarized here as the synthesis pass identifies them. Recalls are framed as regulatory events, not brand rankings.

Methodology

Pending. This section will state the speciation, basis-preservation, row-fit, and pooling rules that govern downstream sections of this page.

References

Works cited in this page’s text, in first-appearance order. See Sources for this page’s source inventory. Each title links to a source record with bibliographic details, reported findings, and document provenance.

  1. Mineral Constituents of Conserved White Button Mushrooms: Similarities and DifferencesPankavec S, Hanć A, Barałkiewicz D, Dryżałowska A, Zhang J, and Falandysz J · Roczniki Państwowego Zakładu Higieny (Annals of the National Institute of Hygiene) · 2019 · doi.org/10.32394/rpzh.2019.0051Peer-reviewed

Sources

Source records associated with this topic. Inclusion does not establish that every finding applies to this product or ingredient. References above identify works cited in the text.

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1Pankavec et al. 2019. Mineral Constituents of Conserved White Button Mushrooms: Similarities and Differences, Roczniki Państwowego Zakładu Higieny (Annals of the National Institute of Hygiene)2019Peer-reviewedPL/EU Pb, Cd, tHg, tAs, Ag, Sb, Tl, U, Ni, Al, Cr, Co, Cu, Zn, Mn, Mg, Se, Li, Cs, Ba, V occurrence in 100 unit packages of commercially available pickled/conserved white button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) from 6 manufacturers (brand identifiers omitted… (n=100)

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