Wrapped Snacks - Cereal
3 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 7.4 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.3 kg (18 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):6% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 20 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 Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.47, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Granola bar: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Granola bar: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 21.7, highest 28 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.
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