Cookies & Biscuits · barcode 00085239082591

Chocolate Alphabet & Number Crackers, Chocolate

Market Pantry · Target Stores

FDA recalls

• 2013-12-11 · Class I · Terminated undeclared milk and egg in Market Pantry brand white fudge coated Animal CookiesD. F. Stauffer Biscuit Co, Inc.: Market Pantry brand Animal Cookies, white fudge coated, in a clear plastic bear-shaped jar, net wt. 44 oz. Ingredients: enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, invert sugar, cocoa (processed with alkali), graham flour, chocolate, salt, baking soda, calcium carbonate, soy lecithin, natural and artificial flavor, color with (caramel color, blue 1, yellow 6), preservatives (sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sodium metabisulfite), spices (mace and nutmeg). Contains wheat and soy. May contain peanuts and tree nuts. Distributed by Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN. FDA record F-0729-2014

Typical for cookies & biscuits

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

• Lead: typically 5.33 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 310 g (11 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.3 kg (2.9 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  32% of a toddler's daily limit

  8% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 26.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  18% of a toddler's daily limit

  4% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 7.57, highest 10 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 13.4, highest 24 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 3 of 3, average 48.3, highest 68 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 18.3, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Cookies, sugar: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 18 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 1 of 3, average 0.53, highest 1.6 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cookies, chocolate chip: found in 2 of 3, average 3.43, highest 5.2 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sandwich, with crème filling: found in 3 of 3, average 5.6, highest 7.2 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cookies, sugar: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Chocolate chip cookies: found in 6 of 20, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Sandwich cookies w/ creme filling: found in 5 of 20, average 0.6, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Sugar cookies: found in 13 of 19, average 3.07, highest 15.4 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)

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, INVERT SUGAR, COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA, AMMONIUM BICARBONATE), SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), NATURAL FLAVOR, (MALTODEXTRIN, COCOA POWDER, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-09-14. Labels change; check the package.

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