Source pages whose evidence comes from Latin America & Caribbean, grouped by jurisdiction.
Brazil (50)
- A Rapid Routine Methodology Based on Chemometrics to Evaluate the Toxicity of Commercial Infant Milks Due to Hazardous Elements (2022)
- Aluminium in infant foods: Total content, effect of in vitro digestion on bioaccessible fraction and preliminary exposure assessment (2020)
- Aluminum content and effect of in vitro digestion on bioaccessible fraction in cereal-based baby foods (2020)
- and 2019 to evaluate field preparation techniques effect on selected heavy metals concentration and rice (2021)
- ANVISA RDC No. 628/2022: cosmetic colorant list and organic-colorant metal impurities (2022)
- Arsenic, cadmium and lead concentrations in Yerba mate commercialized in Southern Brazil by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (2017)
- Assessment of Human Health Risk of Metal(Loid) Content in Brazilian Sardine Along the Southwestern Atlantic (2023)
- Assessment of the Risk of Contamination of Food for Infants and Toddlers (2021)
- Biodecontamination of milk and dairy products by probiotics: Boon for bane (2021)
- Cacau e Chocolates “Bean to Bar”: Contaminantes Inorgânicos e Ocratoxina A (Cocoa beans and “Bean to Bar” chocolates: Inorganic contaminants and Ochratoxin A) (2023)
- Cadmium, lead, tin, total mercury, and methylmercury in canned tuna commercialised in São Paulo, Brazil (2017)
- Cd and Pb in cocoa beans: Occurrence and effects of chocolate processing (2021)
- Comparative Study of the Presence of Heavy Metals in Edible Vegetable Oils (2023)
- Comparison between pollutants found in breast milk and infant formula in the last decade: A review (2023)
- Comparison of Essential and Toxic Metals Levels in some Herbal Teas: a Systematic Review (2023)
- Composition and bioaccessibility of inorganic elements in plant-based yogurts (2023)
- Concentration of heavy metals in pasteurized and sterilized milk and health risk assessment across the globe: A systematic review (2024)
- Data on metals, nonmetal, and metalloid in the samples of the canned tuna and canned sardines sold in Brazil (2021)
- Determination of heavy metals in the ambient atmosphere: A review (2016)
- Determination of heavy metals in the roasted and ground coffee beans and brew (2017)
- Do You Know What You Drink? Comparative Research on the Contents of Radioisotopes and Heavy Metals in Different Types of Tea from Various Parts of the World (2024)
- Edible Oils from Health to Sustainability: Influence of the Production Processes in the Quality, Consumption Benefits and Risks (2025)
- Especiacao quimica de arsenio em amostras de arroz empregando extracao por fase solida in-situ e determinacao por FI-HG AAS (2018)
- Essential and Potentially Toxic Elements in Commercial Milk Formulas: Health Risk Assessment Through a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2026)
- Essential and Toxic Elements in Infant Cereal in Brazil: Exposure Risk Assessment (2024)
- Essential minerals and inorganic contaminants (barium, cadmium, lithium, lead and vanadium) in dried bee pollen produced in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (2016)
- Evaluation of metals in tomato sauces stored in different types of packaging (2018)
- Fish consumption habits of pregnant women in Itaituba, Tapajós River basin, Brazil: risks of mercury contamination as assessed by measuring total mercury in highly consumed piscivore fish species and in hair of pregnant women (2022)
- Health risk assessment of heavy metals in imported frozen bovine meat and organs marketed in Sohag, Egypt (2025)
- Health Risk Assessment: Heavy Metals (Lead, Cadmium and Nickel) in Jewellery (Oral and Dermal Contact) (2022)
- Heavy Metals in Foods and Beverages: Global Situation, Health Risks and Reduction Methods (2023)
- Impacts of Heavy Metals in Seed Crops and Oil Seed on Human Health: A Threat to Food Safety — Review (2023)
- Inorganic Contaminants in Plant-Based Yogurts Commercialized in Brazil (2023)
- Lead contamination in human milk affects infants’ language trajectory: results from a prospective cohort study (2024)
- Mercury contamination in the Amazon Basin: fish consumption, co-exposures, and health implications for indigenous and riverside communities (2025)
- Mercury in the Jaguaribe River Estuary, Northeast Brazil: Sources, Distribution, and Bioavailability (2022)
- More Danger Than Meets the Eye: Potentially Toxic Element Contamination in Fish from the Western Pará Poses Significant Hazards to Local Communities (2026)
- Occurrence and determination of inorganic contaminants in baby food and infant formula (2019)
- Potentially Toxic Elements in Commercial Soap and Powder Detergent Samples (2024)
- Potentially Toxic Elements in Costume Cosmetics Used by Children and Adults Are Associated with Cancer Risk (2023)
- Research on the Content of Minerals and Heavy Metals (2025)
- Resolução RDC Nº 722, de 1º de julho de 2022 (2022)
- STUDY ON ADSORPTION OF HEAVY METALS BY RICE HUSK (2021)
- Systematic review and spatiotemporal assessment of mercury concentration in fish from the Tapajós River Basin: implications for environmental and human health (2025)
- The Bioaccumulation and Physiological Effects of Heavy Metals in Carrots, Onions, and Potatoes and Dietary Implications for Cr and Ni: A Review (2014)
- Toxic chemicals in a child’s world: an investigation into PVC plastic products (2001)
- Toxic Metals and Metalloids in Food: Current Status, Health Risks, and Mitigation Strategies (2024)
- Toxic Metals and Metalloids in Infant Formulas Marketed in Brazil, and Child Health Risks According to the Target Hazard Quotients and Target Cancer Risk (2022)
- Trace Elements in Soy-Based Beverages: A Comprehensive Study of Total Content and In Vitro Bioaccessibility (2023)
- Tracking Cadmium Transfer from Soil to Cup: An Electrochemical Sensing Strategy Based on Bi3+-Rich MOFs for Tea Safety Monitoring (2025)
Peru (34)
- Ayurveda is the ancient Indian system of health-care and longevity. There is a long history of use of herbal plants and its formulations for the (2018)
- behaviours (e.g., fishing bans, increases in recreational hunting) (Malli et al, 2023). These (2026)
- Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in high Andean crops of the Peruvian Andes: comparative evaluation between irrigated and dry systems (2026)
- contamination levels in 120 food samples collected from three distinct vending (2025)
- Dataset of metals and metalloids in food crops and soils sampled across the mining region of Moquegua in Peru (2023)
- Determination Of Mercury, Cadmium, And Lead Levels In Canned Tuna And Fish Marketed In Central Lima, Peru, Using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry: Implications For Public Health (2026)
- Determination of Potentially Toxic Elements in Quinoa Crops Located in the Huacaybamba-Huanuco-Peru Area (2023)
- Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment of Metals in Peruvian Avocados Using a Probabilistic Approach (2026)
- Environmental Research and Ecotoxicity. 2025; 4:172 (2025)
- Essential, trace and toxic elements content, their (2024)
- Evaluation of the responses of contrasting (2025)
- Exposure and Health (2024) 16:715–726 (2024)
- health and environmental impacts of heavy metals and faecal pollution in Omor and its environs. (2024)
- Heavy metal accumulation in leaves and beans of cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in major cacao growing regions in Peru (2017)
- Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment in grains and grain-based processed food in Arequipa region of Peru (2021)
- Heavy Metals in Air, Soil and (2026)
- Incorporating in vivo demethylation and reduction into mercury mitigation (2025)
- index.php/PST/indexing_abstracting (2023)
- internal order was only slightly changed after subjecting them to the Cr(VI) agent. The results suggest (2023)
- Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Raw Milk Produced in the Vicinity of a Mini Mineral Concentrator in the Central Andes and Health Risk (2023)
- Low mercury content in Seychelles (2025)
- Meso- and macroporous silica-based arsenic (2021)
- Mitigation of Cadmium Accumulation in Cocoa Beans Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Biochar and Callisia repens (2025)
- Molecular Aspects of Methylcadmium Toxicity: Effects on the H2O2 (2026)
- on Heavy Metals in the (2016)
- physiological changes that relate to the exposure of an organism to a chemical. Accordingly, (2012)
- Probabilistic Risk Characterization of Heavy Metals in Peruvian Coffee: Implications of Variety, Region and Processing (2023)
- Risk of lead exposure from wild game consumption from cross-sectional studies in Madre de Dios, Peru (2022)
- Soil, Site, and Management Factors Affecting Cadmium Concentrations in Cacao-Growing Soils (2020)
- soluble phosphate concentration, while treatments at 350 ◦ C lead to greater phosphorus recovery in the solid (2025)
- The distribution of cadmium in soil and cacao beans in Peru (2023)
- The stability of fish populations: how changes in the (2011)
- The WHO recommends monitoring iodine status in all populations with median urinary iodine concentration (UIC) below 100 μg/l suggesting (2022)
- Transfer of heavy metals from soil to vegetables: A comparative (2024)
Ecuador (17)
- An Overview of Cadmium, Chromium, and Lead Content in Bivalves Consumed by the Community of Santa Rosa Island (Ecuador) and Its Health Risk Assessment (2020)
- Assessment of total mercury content in fish muscle tissue from the middle basin of the Pastaza River, Ecuador (2024)
- Cadmium fractionation in soils affected by organic matter application: Transfer of cadmium to cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) tissues (2022)
- Cadmium in Cacao from Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Research and Potential Mitigation Solutions (2019)
- Cadmium isotope fractionation in the soil–cacao system in Ecuador: a pilot study (2019)
- Content and the relationship between cadmium, nickel, and lead concentrations in Ecuadorian cocoa beans from nine provinces (2019)
- Determination of cadmium and lead in vegetables marketed in Quito, Ecuador (2023)
- Drivers of cadmium accumulation in Theobroma cacao L. beans: A quantitative synthesis of soil-plant relationships across the Cacao Belt (2022)
- Expert Investigation Related to Cocoa and Chocolate Products: Final Report (2022)
- Induction of rhizobium japonicum in the fermentative mass of two varieties of cacao (Theobroma Cacao L.) as a strategy for the decrease of cadmium (2022)
- Low mercury, cadmium and lead concentrations in tuna products from the eastern Pacific (2020)
- Mercury in aquatic ecosystems of two indigenous communities in the Piedmont Ecuadorian Amazon: evidence from fish, water, and sediments (2024)
- Potentially toxic element bioaccumulation in consumed indoor shrimp farming associated with diet, water and sediment levels (2023)
- Reducing cadmium bioaccumulation in Theobroma cacao using biochar: basis for scaling-up to field (2022)
- The Effect of Cocoa Beans Heavy and Trace Elements on Safety and Stability of Confectionery Products (2016)
- Total mercury exposure through canned tuna in water sold in Quito, Ecuador (2024)
- Trace elements in farmland soils and crops, and probabilistic health risk assessment in areas influenced by mining activity in Ecuador (2023)
Argentina (13)
- Arsenic in drinking water: An analysis of global drinking water regulations and recommendations for updates to protect public health (2022)
- Arsenic in edible macroalgae: an integrated approach (2019)
- Arsenic risk assessment through dairy products ingestion (2023)
- Cancer mortality and its relationship with arsenic and nitrates in drinking water in central Argentina (2022)
- Concentrations of trace elements in human milk: Comparisons among women in Argentina, Namibia, Poland, and the United States (2017)
- Detection of Arsenic, Chromium, Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury in Fish: Effects on the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Aquatic Life and Human Consumers (2023)
- Determination of toxic metals in canned tuna sold in developed and developing countries: Health risk assessment associated with human consumption (2023)
- Global Sourcing of Low-Inorganic Arsenic Rice Grain (2020)
- Heavy metals in seafood purchased from a fishery market in Hungary (2018)
- Monitoring and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Food (2014)
- Sulfur reduces arsenic and cadmium translocation from root to shoot in wheat by regulating vacuolar sequestration (2022)
- The Possible Effects of Heavy Metals in Honey as Toxic and Carcinogenic Substances on Human Health: A Systematic Review (2021)
- Toxic Trace Element Contents in Gluten-free Cereal Bars Marketed in Argentina (2015)
Colombia (11)
- Addressing Cadmium in Cacao Farmland: A Path to Safer, Sustainable Chocolate (2025)
- Cadmium in cacao crops and artisanal chocolates in the Arauca Department, Colombia (2024)
- ClimaLOCA project: Fostering innovations for cadmium reduction in cocoa beans in Latin America (2023)
- Effect of environmental variables on mercury accumulation in sediments of an anthropogenically impacted tropical estuary (Buenaventura Bay, Colombian Pacific) (2023)
- Integrating natural gradients and controlled assays to reveal bacterial responses to cadmium in Theobroma cacao L., soils (2026)
- Mercury Accumulation in Commercial Varieties of Oryza sativa L. Cultivated in Soils of La Mojana Region, Colombia (2021)
- Nutritional and Biochemical Diversity in Beans Accessions from Three Phaseolus Species Using Multiomics Characterization (2026)
- Phosphorus-Loaded Biochar-Assisted Phytoremediation to Immobilize Cadmium, Chromium, and Lead in Soils (2024)
- Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals in Tropical Soils an Overview (2021)
- Presence of Nematodes, Mercury Concentrations, and Liver Pathology in Carnivorous Freshwater Fish from La Mojana, Sucre, Colombia: Assessing Fish Health and Potential Human Health Risks (2025)
- Resolucion Numero 4506 de 2013: niveles maximos de contaminantes en alimentos (2013)
Chile (6)
- A mass-balance approach to evaluate arsenic intake and excretion in different populations (2022)
- Decreto 977, SALUD (1996) - Reglamento Sanitario de los Alimentos (1996)
- Long-term monitoring of water quality in the Chilean Altiplano-Puna: arsenic and boron exceedances in surface waters 2008–2018 (2022)
- The organotin contaminants in food: Sources and methods for detection: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
- Total and inorganic arsenic concentrations in different species of economically important algae harvested from coastal zones of Chile (2012)
- Total and inorganic arsenic contents in seaweeds: Absorption, accumulation, transformation and toxicity (2018)
Cuba (3)
- Characterization of arsenic content in marine organisms from temperate, tropical, and polar environments (2006)
- Chemical speciation of arsenic in different marine organisms: Importance in monitoring studies (2004)
- NC 877:2012 Harina de trigo - Especificaciones (2012)
TT (3)
- Food and Drugs Act Chapter 30:01: food metal limits in regulations and fishery products schedule (2007)
- Heavy metals in children’s toys and baby items commonly sold in Trinidad and Tobago (2020)
- Relationships between cadmium in tissues of cacao trees and soils in plantations of Trinidad and Tobago (2016)
PA (3)
- Determination of toxic elements (mercury, cadmium, lead, tin and arsenic) in fish and shellfish samples. Risk assessment for the consumers (2013)
- Panama Decreto Ejecutivo No. 467 of 2007: plant-product heavy metals and nitrates (2007)
- Resolucion No. 368 of 15 May 2009: maximum contaminant limits for fishery products (2009)
Uruguay (2)
- Inorganic contaminants (As, Cd, Pb) in peeled and whole potatoes and sweet potatoes (2023)
- Uruguay Reglamento Bromatologico Nacional, 5th edition: inorganic contaminant and metal migration limits (2012)
Guatemala (1)
AG (1)
GY (1)
PY (1)
JM (1)
Bolivia (1)
Costa Rica (1)
SR (1)