Grains/Flour · barcode 00016000107106
Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour
Gold Medal · General Mills Sales Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
- Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of grains/flour show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2023-05-24 · Class I · Terminated Flour has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.General Mills, Inc: Gold Medal Bleached All Purpose Flour, Enriched, Presifted, packaged in the following sizes: 1. Net Wt 32 oz (2lb) 907g, UPC 0 16000-10710 6; and 2. Net Wt 5lb (2.26kg), UPC 0 16000-10610 9. Dist. By General Mills Sales, Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55440. FDA record F-0920-2023
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2024-11-14). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for grains/flour
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 10.9 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.1 kg (13 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 52.7 ppb (FDA, 33 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 1 of 3, average 1.63, highest 4.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Quinoa, cooked: found in 1 of 3, average 3.67, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Quinoa, cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 11.2, highest 19 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27, average 7.98, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Quinoa, cooked: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 8 of 27, average 0.36, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Quinoa, cooked: found in 1 of 3, average 3.33, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27, average 64.3, highest 88 ppb (2017-2020)
"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)
Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin (a B vitamin), Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate (vitamin B1), Riboflavin (vitamin B2), Enzymes, Folic Acid (a B Vitamin).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2024-11-14. Labels change; check the package.