Beer
4 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.7 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Beer: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beer: found in 2 of 3, average 2.07, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beer: found in 2 of 20, average 0.15, highest 2 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.
- Lemon Tea Beer, Lemon Bud Light · Beer
- Premium Large Beer Heineken · Beer
- V Guarana Energy Drink Blue 10x250ml V · Beer
- Garage Project Dirty Water Brewed Alcoholic Seltzer Cherry Peach 10 x 330ml Garage Project · Beer