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Meijer Baby, Infant Formula - Milk-Based Powder with Iron - Birth - 12 months

Baby food and drinks

What stands out

Bars show one serving: 1 cup, a standard portion.

  • Measured in this product

    Lab tests of this product found lead: 2.3 ppb in 1 sample. Details

    25% of a toddler's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion25% of a toddler's daily limit
    6% of an adult's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion6% of an adult's daily limit
  • Measured in this product

    Lab tests of this product found mercury: 0.417 ppb in 1 sample. Details

    7% of a toddler's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion7% of a toddler's daily limit
    1% of an adult's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion1% of an adult's daily limit
  • Measured in this product

    Lab tests of this product found cadmium: 3.1 ppb in 1 sample. Details

    5% of a toddler's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion5% of a toddler's daily limit
    1% of an adult's daily limit in 1 cup, a standard portion1% of an adult's daily limit
  • Lab tests3 chemicals measured in this product. See results
  • RecallsNo barcode on file, so recalls can't be matched to it.
  • AdditivesNo ingredient list on file.
  • TypicalFDA's tests of baby food and drinks show what's typical. See levels
  • Others965 other baby food and drinks products have lab results. Compare them

Lab results for this product

Measured in this product Healthy Babies Bright Futures (2019), via detectlead.com (2019)

ppb = parts per billion. "Below the lab's limit" means the lab could not measure it reliably, not that it is absent.

Typical for baby food and drinks

FDA's averages for this kind of food (this product has its own lab results above)

Compared with FDA's milk-based infant formula, prepared: what FDA found when it bought and tested it across the US. These are not tests of this product.

  • Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): 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, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2018)
  • Cadmium 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, milk-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, 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.

Not tested

No published results for this product cover: Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.

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