METALLOPATHY Evidence on heavy metals in people

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Diet

Do cereals, vegetables, cocoa, and shellfish contain cadmium?

The draft corpus names cereals, vegetables, cocoa, and shellfish as cadmium sources and cites EFSA 2009. That food-list wording was not checked against a saved copy of the opinion, so no occurrence number is stated. The tolerable weekly intake from the same opinion is on the cadmium page because the corpus tagged that value as checked.

What is not available

Food occurrence values were not verified.

Related evidence, where it exists, is on the linked pages. Those pages do not fill this gap.

Related pages

Sources

  1. EFSA 2009 cadmium opinion, doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2009.980

Heavy Metal Index

Heavy Metal Index: grains, cereals, and rice products. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.

What's safe to buy

The Heavy Metal Tested and Certified public register listed no licensees on 15 October 2026. That page reported 0 certified brands and 0 certified products, and it stated that no brand has completed the three-lot baseline. A specimen layout on the register is an illustration, not a licensee. This page does not name or rank any brand.

The program states that certification is a measurement of a product against a published limit, not a statement that the product is safe. If a licensee is later listed for this category, it will be on the register.

This page summarizes cited documents. It does not diagnose or prescribe. Reviewed 15 October 2026.