This Health Sciences Authority advisory gives Singapore cosmetic suppliers practical expectations for safety and quality checks. The heavy-metals section states that heavy metals should not be intentionally added and that technically unavoidable traces should meet the ASEAN contaminant-guideline limits. Table 1 lists arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury quantities by weight in parts per million. The structured rows are advisory impurity limits, separate from the binding ACD regulation rows.
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