Karicare Goat Milk Stage 3 12+ Months 900g

Nutricia Limited · Infant Formula · barcode 09421906332025

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 infant formula show what's typical. See levels

Typical for infant formula

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

Cadmium: typically 2.53 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5.9 L (24½ cups) a day; an adult at about 28 L (116¾ cups).
One serving (230 ml, from the label):
4% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 2.48 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 1 of 2 samples, average 5, highest 10 ppb (2019-2020)
Lead in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2018)
Lead in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 4 ppb (2019-2020)
Lead in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 4 ppb (2018)
Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 1.45, highest 1.6 ppb (2019-2020)
Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 6.15, highest 6.3 ppb (2019-2020)
Cadmium in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 1 ppb (2019-2020)
Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 0 of 2 samples, all below 1 ppb (2019-2020)
Mercury in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 1 ppb (2018)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered: found in 1 of 2 samples, average 1.8, highest 3.6 ppb (2019-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, milk-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 3 ppb (2018)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered: found in 2 of 2 samples, average 5.65, highest 7 ppb (2019-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Baby food, infant formula, soy-based, powdered, prepared with water: found in 0 of 1 sample, all below 3 ppb (2018)

"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)

Goat Milk<sup>*</sup>, Lactose (From Milk), Vegetable Oils (Antioxidant (Sunflower Lecithin, Mixed Tocopherols)), Short Chain Galacto-Oligosaccharides (From Milk), Dried Omega LCPUFAs (Fish, Antioxidant (Sodium Ascorbate, Mixed Tocopherols, Ascorbyl Palmitate)), Long Chain Fructo-Oligosaccharides, Minerals (Calcium, Phosphorus, Iron, Zinc, Iodine), Vitamins (Vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B12, C, D3, E), Folic Acid)

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.

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