Bread
600 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 27 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):18% of a toddler's daily limit4% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 6.77 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 2.75 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4 kg (8.8 lb) a day; an adult at about 19 kg (42 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 5 of 27, average 0.91, highest 6.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 9 of 27, average 2.28, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 20 of 27, average 3.88, highest 7.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27, average 24.6, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27, average 27.4, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27, average 29.9, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27, average 5.74, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 26 of 27, average 5.06, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27, average 10.3, highest 18 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Bread, white, enriched: found in 12 of 20, average 2.55, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Bread, whole wheat: found in 15 of 20, average 2.7, highest 7 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.
- Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Potato Bread, 22 Oz Loaf Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Light Style Whole Wheat Bread, 16 Oz Loaf Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Jewish Rye Soft Rye Bread, 16 oz. Bag Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Golden Potato Slider Buns, 12-Pack Bag Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Swirl French Toast Breakfast Bread, 14 Oz Loaf Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Swirl Strawberry Breakfast Bread, 14 Oz Loaf Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Sweet Hawaiian Hot Dog Buns, Top Sliced, 8-Pack Bag Pepperidge Farm · Bread
- Pepperidge Farm Sweet Hawaiian Slider Buns, 12-Pack Bag Pepperidge Farm · Bread