Overview
This page is a scaffolded entry for HMTc Taxonomy v2.0 Category 23 (Food-Contact Consumer Goods and Kitchenware), Row 13: Glassware. Studies for this row are still being read. Where a section is empty, the row has not yet accumulated contributing sources of the required kind.
Literature scope
The Heavy Metal Index source corpus is currently focused on food and food-contact materials. This page documents an HMTc Taxonomy v2.0 row in the category Food-Contact Consumer Goods and Kitchenware for which no peer-reviewed primary or government sources have yet been ingested. The page exists as the routing destination for future ingest. Until sources land, the literature-evidence sections below are deliberately empty rather than guessed; HMTc certification thresholds for products in this row continue to be developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this public page.
Reading guide
Legal, regulatory and retailer teams can use the cited measurements, applicable limits and study limitations to assess the evidence for this category.
Quality teams can examine product form, measurement basis and sources of variation. Journalists and researchers can follow each reference to the original findings and methods.
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Evidence summary
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Source Evidence Inventory
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Supporting evidence and scope
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Federal/Regulatory Limits vs Field Findings
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Controls and mitigation
Practical interventions to reduce heavy-metal load in this row, ordered by impact magnitude. Each lever names the magnitude of the effect with a cited source; cross-links to dedicated Mitigation pages where they exist.
- Sourcing levers — Not yet catalogued.
- Agronomic levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Agronomic mitigation for general agronomic mitigation context.)
- Processing levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Processing mitigation.)
- Formulation levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Formulation mitigation.)
- Testing and QC levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Testing and quality-control mitigation when published.)
- Packaging and storage levers — Not yet catalogued. (See Packaging and storage mitigation when published.)
How standards math uses this page
HMT&C certification thresholds for this row are developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this page. The row-standard for this row is an aggregate computed from the contributing source pool in the row’s native finished-product basis; it is not a per-source decoration of any single value cited on this page. This public page reports literature evidence only.
Historical recalls and enforcement
Public regulatory events for this row, such as recalls and import alerts, will be listed here as they are catalogued.
Methodology
This page reports what the cited sources say about heavy-metal concentrations in glassware. Speciation is non-substitutable (iAs vs tAs, MeHg vs tHg, Cr-VI vs total Cr). Basis is preserved (finished-product as sold unless the source specifies otherwise; see each row for the basis label). Non-detect handling follows each source’s reporting convention. Pooling is avoided across LOD/LOQ, period, geography, and analytical-basis differences. HMT&C certification thresholds for products in this row are developed under the certification program at heavymetalcertified.com, not on this page; this public page reports literature evidence only.
The applicable regulatory jurisdictions for this row are: FDA (food-contact substances), EU (food-contact material regulations), California Prop 65.
Sources
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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.
| # | Citation | Year | Type | Used on this page for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DTU National Food Institute 2024. Suggestive maximum limits for lead and cadmium in food contact materials, DTU National Food Institute memo no. 24/1014518 for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration | 2024 | Regulatory report | DK/EU/DE Pb, Cd occurrence in DVFA 2023 internal testing summary for 47 ceramic cups, bowls, plates, and ovenproof dishes on the Danish market,… (n=47) |
| 2 | Assurance 2019. California Proposition 65 Compliance Requirements, HSN internal supplier compliance specification (issued 4 December 2019; last updated 7 April 2021) | 2019 | Industry | US-CA/US Pb, Cd occurrence in Retailer-issued compliance specification. No primary sampling or measurement. Summarises legal limits and HSN QA acceptance/rejection criteria derived from… |
| 3 | Szynal et al. 2016. Migration studies of nickel and chromium from ceramic and glass tableware into food simulants, Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny | 2016 | Peer-reviewed | PL/EU Ni, Cr occurrence in Ceramic tableware and decorated-rim glassware available on the Polish retail market and manufactured on an industrial scale in… (n=224) |
| 4 | Rebeniak et al. 2014. Exposure to lead and cadmium released from ceramics and glassware intended to come into contact with food, Roczniki Państwowego Zakładu Higieny / Annals of the National Institute of Hygiene 2014;65(4):301-309 | 2014 | Peer-reviewed | PL/EU Pb, Cd occurrence in 1,273 ceramic and glassware items (mainly decorated) sampled from the Polish retail market 2010–2012 by Sanitary-Epidemiological Stations across… (n=1273) |
| 5 | Centre for Food Safety 2012. Safety Issues of Baby Bottles and Children’s Tableware (Risk Assessment Studies Report No. 47), Centre for Food Safety, Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Risk Assessment Studies Report No. 47, January 2012 | 2012 | Government report | HK/EU/US Pb, Cd, Ni, Cr, Cr-VI, Al occurrence in Narrative literature review; no original measurements. The review summarises secondary toxicology and migration evidence from FAO/WHO, EFSA, USFDA,… |
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