Flavored Snack Crackers
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Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Lead: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.1 kg (6.8 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):13% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 28.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 530 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.5 kg (5.5 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):19% of a toddler's daily limit4% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). 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 1.9 kg (4.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.1 kg (20 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of a adult's daily limit
- Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Crackers, butter-type: found in 1 of 3, average 2.43, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3, average 4.83, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Crackers, saltine: found in 1 of 3, average 1.37, highest 4.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 35.7, highest 43 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3, average 21.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3, average 28, highest 35 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, butter-type: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, cheese: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Crackers, saltine: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3, average 7.6, highest 7.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, cheese: found in 2 of 3, average 3.13, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3, average 3.5, highest 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, butter-type: found in 16 of 20, average 10.2, highest 37 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Crackers, saltine: found in 5 of 20, average 0.57, 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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