Flours & Corn Meal
1,331 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 43 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 350 g (12 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.7 kg (3.7 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):28% of a toddler's daily limit6% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 1 of 3, average 1.63, highest 4.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
"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.
- Fairhaven, Organic Whole Rye Flour Fairhaven · Flours & Corn Meal
- All Purpose Flour Baker Josef's · Flours & Corn Meal
- Nuts, Just Almond Meal Trader Joe's · Flours & Corn Meal
- Bleached Enriched Presifted All Purpose Flour Gold Medal · Flours & Corn Meal
- Whole Wheat Flour Lidl · Flours & Corn Meal
- Corn Starch Not A Branded Item · Flours & Corn Meal
- Vital Wheat Gluten Augason Farms · Flours & Corn Meal
- All Purpose Enriched, Bleached Flour Avenue A · Flours & Corn Meal