Butter/Butter Substitutes
53 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.
- BLUE BONNET Soft Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- BLUE BONNET Light Soft Spread, 15 OZ Blue Bonnet · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- BLUE BONNET Vegetable Oil Spread Blue Bonnet · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- PARKAY Soft Spread, 6.25 OZ Parkay · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- PARKAY Original Spread Bowl, 13 OZ Parkay · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- PARKAY Soft Spread Sleeve, 13.4 OZ Parkay · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- FLEISCHMANNS Olive Oil Soft Spread Twin Pack, 12.3 OZ Fleischmann's · Butter/Butter Substitutes
- FLEISCHMANNS Olive Oil Soft Spread Bowl, 11.9 OZ Fleischmann's · Butter/Butter Substitutes