Biscuits Plain/Sweet
5 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 35.5 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 420 g (15 oz) a day; an adult at about 2 kg (4.4 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):24% of a toddler's daily limit5% of a adult's daily limit
- Perchlorate: typically 1.87 ppb (FDA, 79 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.8 kg (6.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 13 kg (29 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):4% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, butter-type: found in 1 of 3, average 2.43, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, graham: found in 1 of 3, average 2.5, highest 7.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 35.7, highest 43 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, graham: found in 3 of 3, average 43.3, highest 49 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, butter-type: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, graham: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 7.6, highest 7.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, graham: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, butter-type: found in 16 of 20, average 10.2, highest 37 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, graham: found in 8 of 20, average 1.34, highest 8 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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.
- Ritz Mini Original 150g Ritz · Biscuits Plain/Sweet
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- Chanui Anzac 180g Chanui · Biscuits Plain/Sweet
- Chanui Ginger Nut 180g Chanui · Biscuits Plain/Sweet
- Bear Paws Soft Cookies Banana Bread 240g Bear Paws · Biscuits Plain/Sweet