Pork - Unprepared/Unprocessed
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Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Perchlorate: typically 12.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 490 g (17 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.3 kg (5.1 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):20% of a toddler's daily limit4% 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 Ham, cured (not canned), baked: found in 10 of 27, average 2.28, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Ham, cured (not canned), baked: found in 12 of 27, average 0.98, highest 4.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Ham, cured (not canned), baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Ham, cured (not canned), baked: found in 7 of 27, average 0.97, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork chop, pan-cooked with oil: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Ham, cured (not canned), baked: found in 18 of 20, average 30.2, highest 126 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pork chop, pan-cooked w/ oil: found in 10 of 20, average 12.6, highest 73 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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