Chocolate · barcode 00035900309861

Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels

Sanders

FDA recalls

• 2023-01-18 · Class II · Terminated Foreign material in product. Pieces of cleaning brush bristles found in the productSanders Candy LLC dba Second Nature Brands: Sanders Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels: UPC 0-35900-27636-1 36OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-25551-9 .5OZ Individual Wrapped UPC 0-35900-27436-7 28OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-27636-1 2 pack 36OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-30781-2 6OZ Pouch UPC 0-35900-30970-0 18OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-30986-1 18OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-31081-2 9OZ Pouch UPC 0-35900-31174-1 6OZ Pouch UPC 0-35900-31179-6 36OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-25551-9 .5OZ Individual Wrapped UPC 0-35900-30948-9 18OZ Tub UPC 0-35900-30168-1 7OZ Pouch UPC 0-35900-31045-4 14oz Gift Box FDA record F-0250-2023

Typical for chocolate

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

• Lead: typically 4.05 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  18% of a toddler's daily limit

  5% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 18 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 840 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.9 kg (8.6 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  12% of a toddler's daily limit

  3% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 3.1 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 5.98 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.6 kg (19 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  5% of a toddler's daily limit

  1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 2 of 3, average 3.63, highest 7.8 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, and nuts: found in 15 of 20, average 2.52, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20, average 8.92, highest 15 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)

CARAMEL (CREAM [CREAM, MILK], CORN SYRUP, SUGAR, INVERT SUGAR, WATER, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], SALT, SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER]), MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, NONFAT MILK POWDER, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN [AN EMULSIFIER], VANILLA), SEA SALT

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-06-29. Labels change; check the package.

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