Beef - Prepared/Processed
1 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.23 ppb (FDA, 76 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 7 of 22 samples, average 1.67, highest 7.1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 20 of 22 samples, average 2.85, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 0 of 22 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 5.56, highest 21 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.06, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 2 of 22 samples, average 0.33, highest 4.2 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, broiled: found in 2 of 20 samples, average 0.4, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Beef, ground, regular, pan-cooked: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Frankfurter (beef/pork), boiled: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 11, highest 36 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.
- Kings Command Foods Fully Cooked 0.5 Ounce Swedish Meatballs, 2-5 Pound Bags Of Meatballs, 2-2 Pound Sauce Packets In A 14 Pound Net Weight Master Case. King's Command Food, Inc. · Beef - Prepared/Processed · No longer allowed by FDA