Canned Seafood · barcode 00000008056807
Chopped Fancy Tender Sea Clams
Starkist · StarKist Co.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of canned seafood show what's typical. See levels
Typical for canned seafood
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 2.1 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 3.8 kg (8.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 18 kg (40 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Mercury: typically 38.2 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 36 g (1.3 oz) a day; an adult at about 170 g (6 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):▲ 2.8× a toddler's daily limit● 60% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 336 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 13 of 27, average 1.6, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 25.3, highest 34 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 20.8, highest 46 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 230, highest 250 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 376, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 1,200, highest 1,400 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 4 of 20, average 0.88, highest 12.1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Tuna, canned in water, drained: found in 8 of 20, average 3.51, highest 29 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.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
CLAMS IN THEIR NATURAL JUICE, WATER, SALT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE (TO RETAIN NATURAL JUICES), CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT COLOR).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.