Snack Foods - Chips
15 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 50.9 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 230 g (8.1 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):44% of a toddler's daily limit9% 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 Chips, potato: found in 1 of 3, average 2.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Chips, tortilla: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Chips, potato: found in 3 of 3, average 130, highest 200 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Chips, tortilla: found in 3 of 3, average 2, highest 2.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Chips, potato: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Chips, tortilla: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Chips, potato: found in 1 of 3, average 1.33, highest 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Chips, tortilla: found in 1 of 3, average 1.03, highest 3.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Corn/tortilla chips: found in 1 of 20, average 0.1, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Potato chips: found in 11 of 20, average 2.23, highest 8 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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