Infant Formula
1 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 2.53 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5.9 L (24½ cups) a day; an adult at about 28 L (116¾ cups).One serving (1 cup, a standard portion):4% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.48 ppb (FDA, 6 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 Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 1 of 2 samples, average 5, highest 10 ppb (2019-2020)
- Lead in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2018)
- Lead in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 4 ppb (2019-2020)
- Lead in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2018)
- Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 1.45, highest 1.6 ppb (2019-2020)
- Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
- Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 6.15, highest 6.3 ppb (2019-2020)
- Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
- Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 1 ppb (2019-2020)
- Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
- Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 1 ppb (2019-2020)
- Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
- Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 1 of 2 samples, average 1.8, highest 3.6 ppb (2019-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 3 ppb (2018)
- Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 5.65, highest 7 ppb (2019-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 3 ppb (2018)
"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.
- Karicare Goat Milk Stage 3 12+ Months 900g Infant Formula