Oriental, Mexican & Ethnic Sauces

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Typical levels

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.

Cadmium: typically 15 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 980 g (35 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.6 kg (10 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
10% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of a adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.9 kg (22 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of a adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Sauce, soy: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 3 of 3, average 19.7, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Sauce, soy: found in 3 of 3, average 10.9, highest 12 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Sauce, soy: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Sauce, soy: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Tomato salsa, bottled: found in 19 of 20, average 4.93, highest 19 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

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