Published editions
17 categories are in force, carrying 190 subcategory standards between them. Each row names that volume's edition. Each manual is the bound, citable volume for its category; the web pages are the same content per subcategory.
Forthcoming
A manual publishes when every subcategory in its category has a defensible standard. Categories in progress publish subcategory by subcategory on the web first.
What is inside
The Infant and Child Foods Program Manual is the published Category 1 instrument. Why Method v1 was retired is on the method page.
The five co-equal objectives: drive down contamination; protect consumers; protect brands who enter; remain legally defensible; become the de facto standard.
Baseline, the four certification statuses (Certified, Remediation, Suspension, Revocation), and how each is held to the mark. The mark is used only while Certified.
Current rules of the mark, measurement uncertainty, corrective action windows, the two remediation pathways, and the standards ratchet.
Risk tiers, baseline, reflex, speciation, sampling, the lab-informed schedule, and the 90% stay-in-program certification gate.
Every live subcategory page with its house cert_doi, and every compiled record that is not yet a page, listed as HOLD. Generated from the compiled corpus so it stays live.
Manual and web page
These are the same content at two granularities, not two sources of truth. The web pages are per subcategory and always reflect the current edition. The manual is the bound category volume, fixed at its revision date and citable as a single object.
If the two ever disagree, the manual edition named on the certificate governs that certificate. A brand is held to the standard in force when it was tested, not to a later revision.
Editions and revisions
A manual is superseded, never quietly corrected. A new edition gets a new DOI and the prior edition stays resolvable, because a filing that cited one edition must still be able to reach exactly what it cited.
Substantive changes to a published limit go through the Standards Ratchet Mechanism, which caps how far a limit can move in one step and requires a stated trigger. Limits tighten as the evidence base and analytical feasibility improve; they do not loosen because a brand found them inconvenient.