Dr. Umar Aitsaam

This study found widespread mercury in vegetables and grains near coal power plants, with most samples exceeding food limits and modeled intake surpassing WHO tolerable levels. Soil and crop mercury decreased with distance, foliage accumulated the most, and washing reduced—but rarely eliminated—contamination risk.

This chapter maps cadmium exposure pathways and shows diet dominates exposure for most nonsmokers, while smoking and industrial/waste-site proximity create high-risk subgroups. Soil chemistry and agricultural inputs strongly shape food-chain cadmium, guiding HMTC-style certification priorities.

This review explains the FDA’s final guidance setting a 10 ppb inorganic arsenic action level in apple juice, highlighting market-testing trends, enforcement relevance, and how HMTC programs can translate the benchmark into certification thresholds, control measures, and corrective-action systems.

This metals in apple juice survey found very low metal contamination across Australian apple products, with most samples non-detect. Lead appeared most often at the reporting limit in juices, while tin was consistently detected in canned apple but remained below cited maximum levels.

Infant rice cereal may contain trace amounts of heavy metals like arsenic, lead, and cadmium due to natural uptake from soil and water. This guide breaks down risks, regulations, and how to minimize exposure safely.

Learn how toxic metals like lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury can enter chicken breast through feed, environment, or packaging. Find evidence-based data, regulatory limits, and safe preparation practices.

This study quantifies metals in rice-based infant foods and models exposure across life stages, finding low non-cancer risk but arsenic-driven cancer risk above common acceptability thresholds, supporting tighter, category-specific HMTC testing and limits.

This EFSA risk review set an aluminium tolerable weekly intake of 1 mg/kg bw/week and found some European consumers—especially higher-exposure children—may exceed it. Major contributors include cereals, certain vegetables, tea/cocoa, and some infant formulae, with poor ability to apportion sources.

Heavy metals in baby foods and infant formulas are frequently detectable worldwide, with ML exceedances concentrated in rice, cereals, fish mixes, and early-stage formulas. HMTC programs should prioritize category-specific limits, validated low-LOD lab methods, and stricter product documentation to support traceability and risk-based certification.

Earth’s Best describes a heavy metal certification program-style system for baby food: ingredient vetting, internal limits aligned to U.S./EU rules, and third-party finished-product testing for lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury, plus product-level result lookup.