Meijer Colby Jack Colby & Monterey Jack Reduced Fat Cheese Sticks, Colby Jack
Meijer, Inc. · Processed Cheese & Cheese Novelties · barcode 00708820019591
What stands out
Nothing stands out: no published lab test names this product, no FDA recall lists its barcode and no ingredient on file is banned anywhere we track. Not tested is not the same as clean.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of processed cheese & cheese novelties show what's typical. See levels
Typical for processed cheese & cheese novelties
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 2.5 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5.4 kg (12 lb) a day; an adult at about 25 kg (55 lb).One serving (1 stick, 21 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 8.3 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Perchlorate: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 880 g (31 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.1 kg (9 lb).One serving (1 stick, 21 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cheese, American, processed: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.1, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.8, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Cheese, American, processed: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.2, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Cheese, American, processed: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 12, highest 49 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)
REDUCED FAT COLBY CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED REDUCED FAT MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, COLOR ADDED, VITAMIN A PALMITATE), REDUCED FAT MONTEREY JACK CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED REDUCED FAT MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, VITAMIN A PALMITATE).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-09-14. Labels change; check the package.