Pickles, Olives, Peppers & Relishes · barcode 00071117190458

Amish Potato Salad

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.: Amish Potato Salad, Formula PO.08, packaged under these labels: -Reser's Fine Foods Amish Potato Salad, packaged in 6/16-oz (UPC 071117190458), 6/3-lb (UPC 071117193169) and 3/8-lb (UPC 071117004380) carton cases. Distributed by Reser's Fine Foods, Beaverton, OR. -Yoder's Amish Potato Salad, Original Recipe, packaged in 6/32-oz (073474010394), 6/3-lb (UPC 073474681631) and 2/5-lb (UPC 073474887286) carton cases. Distributed by Lipari Foods, Warren, MI. FDA record F-0248-2014

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)

POTATOES, MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, EGG YOLKS, VINEGAR, SALT), SUGAR, HARD COOKED EGGS, CELERY, MUSTARD (VINEGAR, WATER, MUSTARD SEEDS, SALT, TURMERIC, PAPRIKA, SPICE, GARLIC POWDER), ONION, SWEET PICKLE RELISH (CUCUMBERS, SUGAR, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: MUSTARD SEED, XANTHAN GUM, CELERY SEED, DEHYDRATED RED BELL PEPPER, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, NATURAL FLAVORING, TURMERIC, DEHYDRATED ONION), VINEGAR, SALT, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE), SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), XANTHAN GUM, CELERY SEED.

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

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