Milk/Cream
4 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Perchlorate: typically 6 ppb (FDA, 80 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) a day; an adult at about 7 kg (15 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):7% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cream, half and half: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Milk, reduced fat, fluid: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.06, highest 1.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Milk, skim, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Milk, whole, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cream, half and half: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Milk, reduced fat, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Milk, skim, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Milk, whole, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cream, half and half: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Milk, reduced fat, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Milk, skim, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Milk, whole, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cream, half and half: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Milk, reduced fat, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Milk, skim, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Milk, whole, fluid: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Half & half cream: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 6.59, highest 15.7 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Milk, lowfat (2%), fluid: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 6.04, highest 10 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Milk, skim, fluid: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 6.3, highest 10 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Milk, whole, fluid: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 9.23, highest 74.3 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.
- Woolworths Standard Milk 1L Milk/Cream
- Woolworths Trim Milk 1lL Milk/Cream
- Primo Flavoured Milk Wicked White Chocolate 500ml Milk/Cream
- Jones Family Farm New Zealand Sheep Milk 450ml Milk/Cream