Canned Seafood · barcode 00086600752341

Premium Select Fancy Smoked Clams, Smoked

Bumble Bee · Bumble Bee Foods, LLC

FDA recalls

• 2022-08-03 · Class II · Terminated Detectable levels of Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).Bumble Bee Foods, LLC: Bumble Bee Smoked Clams Shucked Easy Open NET WT. 3.75 oz. (106 g) Distributed By: Bumble Bee Seafoods San Diego, CA 92186 USA Product of China UPC 0 86600 75234 1 FDA record F-1508-2022

Typical for canned seafood

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

• Cadmium: typically 2.1 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 3.8 kg (8.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 18 kg (40 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  3% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: typically 38.2 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 36 g (1.3 oz) a day; an adult at about 170 g (6 oz).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  ▲ 2.8× a toddler's daily limit

  ● 60% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 336 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Lead, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 13 of 27, average 1.6, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 25.3, highest 34 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 20.8, highest 46 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 230, highest 250 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 376, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 1,200, highest 1,400 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 4 of 20, average 0.88, highest 12.1 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Tuna, canned in water, drained: found in 8 of 20, average 3.51, highest 29 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)

SMOKED BABY CLAMS, COTTONSEED OIL, SALT

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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