Berries/Small Fruit
2 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 4.25 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 3.2 kg (7.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 15 kg (33 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.8 ppb (FDA, 54 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 Blueberries, raw: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.71, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Blueberries, raw: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.12, highest 2.2 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 9.26, highest 34 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Blueberries, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Blueberries, raw: found in 15 of 27 samples, average 4.8, highest 35 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Strawberry, raw/frozen: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 2.78, highest 8.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Strawberries, raw/frozen: found in 10 of 20 samples, average 2.23, highest 20 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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.
- Fig Garden Packing Dried Cranberries Berries/Small Fruit
- Fig Garden Packing Dried Cranberries Berries/Small Fruit