Chocolate · barcode 00874492003258

Dark Chocolate Organic Sea Salt, Dark Chocolate

Theo · Theo Chocolate, Inc.

FDA recalls

• 2019-04-17 · Class I · Terminated Theo Chocolate Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate Bar is recalled due to undeclared milk.Theo Chocolate Inc: Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate 3 oz. bars, wrapped in foil and paper wrapper, brand Theo Chocolate, UPC 8 74492 00325 8. The Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate 3 oz. bar's label is read in part: "***Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate *** Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Cane Sugar, Sea Salt, Ground Vanilla Bean *** Allergy Information: Manufactured on shared equipment with products containing milk, eggs, wheat, peanuts & tree nuts ***". These Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate 3 oz. bars are packed in the MASTER CASE that is labeled as: Salted Toffee 55% Dark Chocolate, 3092529 BEST BY 1/2020, Time Stamp 05:00 - 08:15, UPC 20874492003818. These Sea Salt 70% Dark Chocolate are packed in the INNER CASE that is labeled as: Salted Toffee 55% Dark Chocolate, 3092529 BEST BY 1/2020, Time Stamp 05:00 - 08:15, UPC 10874492003811. ***The Salted Toffee 55% Dark Chocolate individual 3 oz bars (UPC 8 74492 00381 4) are labeled CORRECTLY and not subject to this recall. FDA record F-1300-2019

Typical for chocolate

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

• Lead: typically 4.05 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  18% of a toddler's daily limit

  5% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 18 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 840 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.9 kg (8.6 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  12% of a toddler's daily limit

  3% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 3.1 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 5.98 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.6 kg (19 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  5% of a toddler's daily limit

  1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
• Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 3 of 3, average 15.7, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
• Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
• Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 2 of 3, average 3.63, highest 7.8 ppb (2018-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
• Perchlorate in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, and nuts: found in 15 of 20, average 2.52, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20, average 8.92, highest 15 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)

COCOA BEANS*+, CANE SUGAR*+, COCOA BUTTER*+, SEA SALT.

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

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