Canned Soup
2,299 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 5.4 ppb (FDA, 12 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.2 L (9¼ cups) a day; an adult at about 10 L (41¾ cups).One serving (1 cup):11% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3, average 2.63, highest 2.8 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 3 of 3, average 8.5, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 10.3, highest 20 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 3 of 3, average 5.97, highest 9.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, tomato, canned, condensed, prepared with water: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable beef, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Soup, vegetable, canned, ready to serve: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Soup, chicken noodle, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 10 of 20, average 0.77, highest 2.4 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Soup, tomato, canned, cond, prepared w/ water: found in 4 of 20, average 0.31, highest 3 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.
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