Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada (RDC) nº 722, de 1º de julho de 2022 (general principles, scope and analytical methods for maximum tolerated limits, LMT, of contaminants in food; revokes RDC nº 487/2021, which had replaced RDC nº 42/2013); numeric LMT tables set by the companion Instrução Normativa (IN) nº 160, de 1º de julho de 2022 (which itself consolidated and revoked IN nº 88/2021, IN nº 115/2021 and IN nº 152/2022), as amended by IN nº 351, de 18 de março de 2025

The instrument

This page records the heavy-metal maximum levels set by Resolução da Diretoria Colegiada (RDC) nº 722, de 1º de julho de 2022 (general principles, scope and analytical methods for maximum tolerated limits, LMT, of contaminants in food; revokes RDC nº 487/2021, which had replaced RDC nº 42/2013); numeric LMT tables set by the companion Instrução Normativa (IN) nº 160, de 1º de julho de 2022 (which itself consolidated and revoked IN nº 88/2021, IN nº 115/2021 and IN nº 152/2022), as amended by IN nº 351, de 18 de março de 2025, the instrument of Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), Ministério da Saúde, 2022. Every value below is transcribed into the Heavy Metal Index register from the primary text and is the value an HMTc standard cites when this jurisdiction binds a certification limit. It is a record of law, not an HMTc threshold.

Maximum levels

All values µg/kg (ppb), in the basis the instrument states. 25 maximum levels across 4 analytes and 10 product categories, grouped by analyte and ordered by limit.

Where HMTc cites it

Cells where this instrument holds the strictest government value in force among credible regulators, and therefore binds a published HMTc limit. 2 published standards cite it.

Rows appear here only once the citing standard is published. A limit recorded above that binds nothing today may still bind later, as other jurisdictions relax or as a new subcategory is published.

How this interacts with HMTc

HMTc certification standards adopt the strictest existing maximum level set by any credible government, applied cell-by-cell. Where this instrument holds the strictest value for a (product, analyte) cell, it binds the HMTc limit and the standard cites this page. This page does not set or justify any HMTc threshold; it records the sovereign requirement the program measures against.