Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
1,617 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 950 g (34 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):11% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 4 of 27, average 0.63, highest 4.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 6 of 27, average 1, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 14 of 27, average 1.62, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 2 of 27, average 0.09, highest 1.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 5 of 27, average 0.61, highest 3.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 13 of 20, average 19, highest 139 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pork sausage (link/patty), oven-cooked: found in 7 of 20, average 3.15, highest 41 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.
- Hearty Pork Sausage Links Jones Dairy Farm · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
- Original Breakfast Sausage Patties, Original Lidl · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
- Maple Breakfast Sausage, Maple Breakfast Lidl · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
- Applewood Uncured Bacon, Applewood Not A Branded Item · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
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- Hickory Smoked Uncured Bacon, Sea Salt Not A Branded Item · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
- Baby Back Pork Ribs In Sweet & Savory BBQ Sauce, Pork Lidl · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs
- Uncured Bacon Bourbon Molasses Flavor, Boubon Molasses Not A Branded Item · Bacon, Sausages & Ribs