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1,085 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Lead: typically 4.35 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 480 g (17 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.9 kg (4.2 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):21% of a toddler's daily limit5% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 5.05 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Inorganic arsenic: typically 11.5 ppb (FDA, 2 samples, 2019-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 78 g (2.8 oz) a day; an adult at about 370 g (13 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):▲ 1.3× a toddler's daily limit27% of a adult's daily limit
- Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Alcohol, distilled, whiskey/scotch: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Wine, red: found in 3 of 3, average 5.27, highest 7.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Wine, white: found in 3 of 3, average 13, highest 15 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Alcohol, distilled, whiskey/scotch: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Wine, red: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Wine, white: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Alcohol, distilled, whiskey/scotch: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Wine, red: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Wine, white: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Alcohol, distilled, whiskey/scotch: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beer: found in 2 of 3, average 2.07, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Wine, red: found in 3 of 3, average 5.5, highest 6.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Wine, white: found in 3 of 3, average 11.3, highest 12 ppb (2018-2020)
- Inorganic arsenic in Wine, white: found in 2 of 2, average 11.5, highest 11.9 ppb (2019-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beer: found in 2 of 20, average 0.15, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Products
None of these has published lab results yet.
- Margarita Mixer Trader Joe's · Alcohol
- Bloody Mary Mixer With Clam Juice Trader Joe's · Alcohol
- Grenadine Syrup Rose's · Alcohol · 2 additives banned somewhere
- Pina Colada Mixers Bacardi · Alcohol
- Daiquiri Non-alcoholic Frozen Concentrated Mixer, Strawberry Bacardi · Alcohol · 2 additives banned somewhere
- Margarita Non-alcoholic Frozen Concentrated Mixer, Margarita Bacardi · Alcohol · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Dirty Martini Juice, Dirty Martini Rouses Markets · Alcohol
- Whiskey Sour Mix, Whiskey Sour Mr & Mrs T · Alcohol · 1 additive banned somewhere