Heavy Metal Index

Heavy Metal Index

Public evidence index

Trace heavy-metal evidence from food to source.

Search foods, ingredients, metals, regulations, and source literature to trace heavy-metal claims back to cited evidence. The Index is a reference map, not a brand ranking or certification-claims page.

Browse Products
Product CategoryInfant Formula
Leadsource-backed
Cadmiumregulated
Arsenicmatrix-specific
Metal Profile Cadmium food occurrence · intake values · source archive
Source Evidence EFSA / FDA / JECFA citations mapped to pages
Corpus indexed
Peer-reviewed studies
1,593
Government reports and datasets
176
Programmatic databases indexed
55
A-tier curated sources
1,422
Structured evidence records
695
Jurisdictions covered
181
Ingredient profiles
257
Product categories
414
Metal profiles
36
Regulation pages
56

Counts refreshed automatically from on-disk frontmatter and the structured evidence layer on every build. Last refresh: 2026-06-13. Source-type counts are normalized across spelling variants; "Programmatic databases indexed" is a separate count for recurring monitoring data and is also counted under government reports. The full source archive lives at sources.

414 pages

Products

Risk profiles for infant and child foods, formula, cereals, purees, snacks, and related categories.

Consumer-facing categories
257 pages

Ingredients

Ingredient-level profiles for rice, cocoa, fish, vegetables, grains, and formula inputs.

Commodity drivers
36 pages

Metals

Per-metal summaries for lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, nickel, aluminum, chromium, tin, and more.

Metal profiles
56 pages

Regulations

Agency values, action levels, tolerable intakes, and jurisdiction-specific regulatory references.

Thresholds and agencies
2,004 pages

Sources

The source archive behind the index, with linked methods, extracted values, and page cross-references.

Traceable evidence
Transparency

Coverage

PRISMA-equivalent literature flow, taxonomy coverage, and what's still pending. The defensibility surface.

Editorial standards · methodology

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Reference assistant

Ask the Index with citations.

Questions are routed to public Heavy Metal Index pages, with answers designed to point back to cited source material. The live assistant appears in the site navigation on reference pages.

Review assistant data use