The series
Nineteen briefings. Each has its own stable URL and its own bibliographic record, and most carry a downloadable PDF edition: the things a citation needs to survive.
Peer-track preprints
Three preprints carry the framework’s design rationale and are cited throughout the Program Manual. All three are deposited with a DOI.
Indexing policy
Briefings and standards are the only surfaces on this site that carry scholarly citation metadata. Application, fee and directory pages deliberately do not: asserting scholarly status on a transactional page is an overclaim that gets a whole domain dismissed, and the separation is enforced by the firewall crawler rather than left to editorial judgment.
Every briefing therefore emits the full citation_* set and a matching JSON-LD record, and sits at its own stable URL with its abstract readable immediately, without a sign-in, an interstitial or a scroll. The PDF edition is linked from the HTML record rather than standing alone, because an unlinked PDF is indexed as though it carried no metadata at all.
Three fields are load-bearing: the title, the full name of at least the first author, and the year of publication. A record missing any one of the three is treated as carrying no metadata whatsoever: there is no partial credit. The series column above reports which briefings clear that bar today.
Why we limit each metal
Where the briefings above make the case for the program, the why-we-limit pages make the case for each metal: the toxicological basis, which foods carry it and roughly how much, the people the exposure reaches, and why a certification limit is warranted. One synthesis page per metal on the panel.