This page records the infant and child food heavy-metal maximum levels set by Guidance for Industry: Action Level for Inorganic Arsenic in Rice Cereals for Infants (FDA-2016-D-1099), the instrument of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Human Foods Program / Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 2020. Every value below is transcribed 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.
Infant & child food limits
All values µg/kg (ppb), in the basis the instrument states. 6 limits for infant and child food categories.
| Analyte | Limit (µg/kg) | Basis | Product scope | Provision |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lead (Pb) | 20 | as consumed | Processed food packaged for babies and young children <2 yr: dry infant cereals | PRIMARY-CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 vs official document. |
| Lead (Pb) | 20 | product as placed on market | Processed food packaged for babies and young children <2 yr: single-ingredient root vegetables | PRIMARY-CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 vs official document. |
| Lead (Pb) | 10 | product as placed on market | Processed food packaged for babies and young children <2 yr: fruits, vegetables (excluding single-ingredient root vegetables), mixtures (gra | PRIMARY-CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 vs official document. |
| Lead (Pb) | 20 | dry infant cereal | dry infant cereals for children under 2 | PRIMARY-CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 vs official document. |
| Inorganic arsenic (iAs) | 100 | product as placed on market | Rice cereals for infants (all types: white-rice, brown-rice, organic, conventional) | register.gov/documents/2020/08/06/2020-17169/inorganic-arsen |
| Inorganic arsenic (iAs) | 100 | as sold infant rice cereal | all types of infant rice cereals | PRIMARY-CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 vs official document. |
How this interacts with HMTc
HMTc certification standards adopt the strictest maximum level set by any credible government worldwide. 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.