Eggs & Egg Substitutes
915 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Perchlorate: typically 1 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 9.6 kg (21 lb) a day; an adult at about 45 kg (99 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Eggs, boiled: found in 13 of 20, average 1.09, 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.
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