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Heavy Metal Index
Dry white and red beans, plain cooked beans and baked beans in tomato sauce illustrating white beans ingredient context.

Heavy metals in White beans

Overview

This provisional ingredient page records source-specific measurements for white beans. Its population contamination profile has not been synthesized. See Ingredients for the ingredient inventory.

Heavy metal contamination profile

AnalyteCoverageTypical (ppb)ConfidenceKey sources
lead (Pb)pending———
cadmium (Cd)pending———
inorganic arsenic (iAs)pending———
total arsenic (tAs)pending———
total mercury (tHg)pending———
nickel (Ni)pending———
aluminum (Al)pending———
chromium (Cr)pending———
tin (Sn)pending———
uranium (U)pending———

The profile fields remain pending until an evidence synthesis supports a population estimate. Source observations are listed separately below.

References

Works cited in this page’s text, in first-appearance order. See Sources for this page’s source inventory. Each title links to its source record.

  1. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical ResultsU.S. Food and Drug Administration · FDA Total Diet Study · 2022 · www.fda.govDataset

Sources

Sources catalogued for this page. The last column says how each source is used here.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1FDA 2022. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical Results, FDA Total Diet Study2022Government datasetUS-FDA Pb, Cd, tAs, iAs, tHg, Ni, Cr, U, Sb occurrence in 3276 prepared food, beverage and water composites across 307 TDS foods, FY2018-FY2020 US collections (n=3276)

FDA TDS FY2018–FY2020 source observations

FDA measured the prepared foods named below. Each row describes that food and preparation, not every form of this ingredient. Values are µg/kg (ppb) on the FDA sample basis. ND means not detected; it is not a measured zero. Reporting limits can vary between composites. FY2018-FY2020 TDS Elements Analytical Results

FDA food and preparationAnalyteCompositesDetectedDetected concentrations (ppb)Reporting limits (ppb)
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidstAs30ND in all composites3
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidsCd331.8–2.11
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidsCr30ND in all composites50
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidsPb30ND in all composites4
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidstHg30ND in all composites1
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidsNi33200–36040
530: Beans, white, canned, drained solidsU30ND in all composites1

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