Honey
1,395 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):2% 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 Honey: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Honey: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Honey: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Honey: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Honey: found in 11 of 20, average 2.11, highest 6 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.
- Trader Joe's, Acacia Honey Trader Joe's · Honey
- Organic Wild Collected Raw Honey Trader Joe's · Honey
- Colorado Raw & Unfiltered Honey, Colorado Local Hive · Honey
- Clover Honey Sue Bee · Honey
- Clover Honey Sue Bee · Honey
- Clover Honey Sue Bee · Honey
- Clover Honey Sue Bee · Honey
- Wildflower Raw & Unfiltered Honey, Wildflower Aunt Sue's · Honey