Heavy Metals Meeting Book_MYM2023

2023 Heavy Metals Working Group – drafting the new SMPR Arsenic (total) Cadmium Lead Mercury Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) Baby Food (one-half of the proposed action level) 5 ppb (µg/kg) 2 ppb (µg/kg) 2 ppb (µg/kg) 1 ppb (µg/kg) Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) Food Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) Food Additives (Natural Colorants) Repeatability (RSDr) LOQ to 20ppb 20% >20 to 100ppb 15% >100ppb 11% Reproducibility (RSDR) LOQ to 20ppb 37 % >20 to 100ppb 32% >100ppb 16 %

LOQ to 20ppb >20 to 100ppb

60-115 % 80-115 % 80-115 %

Recovery

>100ppb

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