Flour - Cereal/Pulse (Shelf Stable)
2 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 43 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 350 g (12 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.7 kg (3.7 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):28% of a toddler's daily limit6% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). 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)
- Cadmium in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 42.3, highest 45 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Flour, white, all-purpose: found in 3 of 3, average 3.53, highest 3.6 ppb (2018-2020)
"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.
Products
None of these has published lab results yet.
- Gmills Gold Medal Organic Ap Flour Unbl/unbr General Mills Sales Inc. · Flour - Cereal/Pulse (Shelf Stable)
- Morrison's Hi Ratio Cake Flour Morrison's · Flour - Cereal/Pulse (Shelf Stable)