Cheese · barcode 00021130076628
2% Lowfat Small Curd Cottage Cheese
Lucerne · Safeway, Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of cheese show what's typical. See levels
- Others1 other cheese product has lab results. Compare them
FDA recalls
- 2026-04-01 · Class II · Terminated Metal fragments. The potential foreign object is a hard, metal (stainless steel), curled spring. Dimensions of a similar spring measure 2.27mm in cross-sectional thickness and 25.38mm in coil width. Spring ends are not sharp but may be sharp if broken/ cut.Albertsons Companies LLC: Lucerne 2% Cottage Cheese 2% Milkfat Small Curd Vitamin A Added Grade A. Net wt.24oz. Perishable and keep refrigerated. Consumer package is a plastic cup with foil lid and clear plastic lid. UPC 0 21130 07662 8. Distributed by Lucerne Foods, Inc PO Box 99, Pleasanton, CA. Product is distributed in a 6-pack case that consists of a flat cardboard tray and clear plastic film. There are no graphics on the distribution unit. The cases are broken down and product is merchandised as a single 24 oz. FDA record H-0630-2026
Typical for cheese
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Perchlorate: typically 5.9 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.1 kg (13 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):8% of a toddler's daily limit2% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cheese, American, processed: found in 1 of 3, average 2.1, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3, average 2.8, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 3 of 27, average 0.23, highest 2.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, American, processed: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3, average 8.2, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, American, processed: found in 20 of 20, average 12, highest 49 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, Swiss, natural: found in 18 of 20, average 5.14, highest 17 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, cheddar, natural (sharp/mild): found in 18 of 20, average 7.05, highest 69 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.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
CULTURED PASTEURIZED GRADE A FAT FREE MILK, PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, CONTAINS 2 PERCENT OR LESS OF: TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, GRADE A WHEY, CITRIC ACID, GUAR GUM, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, POLYSORBATE 80, DEXTROSE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, CARBON DIOXIDE (TO HELP MAINTAIN FRESHNESS), GRADE A NON-FAT DRY MILK POWDER, CULTURED GRADE A NON-FAT DRY MILK POWDER.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-08-31. Labels change; check the package.