Pickles, Olives, Peppers & Relishes · barcode 00071117004816

Red Skin Potato Salad, Red Skin Potato

Reser's Fine Foods · Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.

FDA recalls

• 2014-01-01 · Class I · Terminated The recalled products are potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.: Red Potato Salad, Formula PO.37, packaged under these labels: -Reser's Red Potato Salad, packaged in 6/16-oz (UPC 071117190052), 6/3-lb (UPC 071117004816) carton cases. -Stonemill Kitchens, Country Red Potato Salad, packaged in 6/4-lb (UPC 071117616842) carton cases. Reser's Fine Foods, Beaverton, OR. FDA record F-0238-2014

Typical for pickles, olives, peppers & relishes

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

• Cadmium: typically 0.55 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 27 kg (60 lb) a day; an adult at more than 100 kg.
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  under 1% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Perchlorate: typically 1.03 ppb (FDA, 39 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 2 of 3, average 4.6, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 3 of 3, average 1.13, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Olives, black, pitted: found in 1 of 3, average 1.03, highest 3.1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Black olives: found in 4 of 19, average 0.95, highest 8 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Dill cucumber pickles: found in 17 of 20, average 3.19, highest 13 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)

RED POTATOES, MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, EGG YOLKS, VINEGAR, SALT), ONION, WATER, VINEGAR, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH. POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SODIUM BENZOATE TO PROTECT FLAVOR, SUGAR, SPICE, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, XANTHAN GUM.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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