Butter & Spread
1,677 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Butter, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Margarine, salted: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Butter, regular (salted): found in 2 of 20, average 0.15, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Margarine, regular (salted): found in 1 of 20, average 0.1, 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.
- Organic Niter Kibbeh Ghee, Niter Kibbeh Pure Indian Foods · Butter & Spread
- 53% Vegetable Oil Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- 53% Vegetable Oil Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Fleischmann's, Vegetable Oil Spread Fleischmann's · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Fleischmann's, Vegetable Oil Spread Fleischmann's · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- 53% Vegetable Oil Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- 39% Vegetable Oil Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter & Spread · 1 additive banned somewhere
- Honey Butter, Original Downey's · Butter & Spread