Scope
The recorded rows come from section 1.2.14 inorganic-contaminant limits for foods, section 14 fish-freshness/safety criteria, and section 12.5.13 ceramic migration limits that are expressed in mg/kg.
Exact limit and units
The page records general food limits for antimony, arsenic, lead, tin, mercury, and cadmium; particular arsenic, lead, and tin rows; a fish mercury row; and fillable ceramic Pb/Cd migration rows expressed in mg/kg. Rows expressed only in mg/dm2 or soluble percent are gap-logged.
How tested
The food limits are presented as maximum tolerance values. The food-contact sections refer to MERCOSUR methods and migration tests, but the excerpt does not provide a metal-specific laboratory method for the food-contaminant rows.
Enforcement posture
The Reglamento sets national food and food-contact requirements. Section 1.2.3 requires foods delivered to consumers to meet the chapter requirements and related particular provisions.
History of changes
The local PDF is the fifth edition of the Reglamento Bromatologico Nacional. Several rows cite appendix decrees in the margins; those companion decrees are not separately transcribed here.
How it compares
Uruguay keeps broad fallback limits for foods in general and narrower particular rows for fats, beverages, milk, chocolate, citrus juice, fish, and food-contact ceramics. Copper rows are present in the source but outside the prompt species vocabulary and are not loaded.
Sources
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 | 1 source added; contamination-profile values revised; 7 sections added |