Source pages whose evidence comes from Latin America & Caribbean, grouped by jurisdiction.
Brazil (44)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
Ecuador (18)
- 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)
- Childhood Lead Exposure Linked to Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches — North Carolina, June 2023–January 2024 (2024)
- 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)
Peru (12)
- Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in high Andean crops of the Peruvian Andes: comparative evaluation between irrigated and dry systems (2026)
- Dataset of metals and metalloids in food crops and soils sampled across the mining region of Moquegua in Peru (2023)
- 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)
- 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)
- Lead, Cadmium, and Arsenic in Raw Milk Produced in the Vicinity of a Mini Mineral Concentrator in the Central Andes and Health Risk (2023)
- Mitigation of Cadmium Accumulation in Cocoa Beans Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Biochar and Callisia repens (2025)
- 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)
- The distribution of cadmium in soil and cacao beans in Peru (2023)
Colombia (10)
- 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)
Chile (5)
- A mass-balance approach to evaluate arsenic intake and excretion in different populations (2022)
- 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 (2)
- 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)
TT (2)
- 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)
Guatemala (1)
AG (1)
PA (1)
JM (1)
Bolivia (1)
Uruguay (1)
SR (1)