Salad Dressings
10 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 1.17 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 9 kg (20 lb) a day; an adult at about 42 kg (93 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total), Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Salad dressing, Italian, regular: found in 1 of 3, average 1.93, highest 5.8 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Salad dressing, ranch, low-calorie: found in 3 of 3, average 12.6, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Salad dressing, ranch, regular: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salad dressing, Italian, regular: found in 0 of 3, all below 2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salad dressing, ranch, low-calorie: found in 2 of 3, average 1.27, highest 2.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salad dressing, ranch, regular: found in 3 of 3, average 3.73, highest 7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salad dressing, Italian, regular: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salad dressing, ranch, low-calorie: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salad dressing, ranch, regular: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salad dressing, Italian, regular: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salad dressing, ranch, low-calorie: found in 3 of 3, average 8.83, highest 12 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salad dressing, ranch, regular: found in 1 of 3, average 1.23, highest 3.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Salad dressing, Italian, regular: found in 4 of 20, average 0.45, highest 4 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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