Results of Arsenic Analysis in Single-Strength Apple Juice 2011 (ORA Sampling Assignment 2011102701)

Overview

FDA’s 2011 ORA apple-juice sampling assignment reports 94 single-strength apple-juice samples with total arsenic, inorganic arsenic, DMA, and MMA results in ppb. The Index routes the inorganic-arsenic rows to Fruit Juices, Apple-Containing as direct species-specific apple-juice evidence and to Fruit Juice (Not Canned) as apple-only subcategory context.

Structured Extract

• data/evidence/category5_apple_juice_arsenic_speciation_samples.csv: sample-level extract with FDA sample IDs, total arsenic, inorganic arsenic, DMA, MMA, original reported values, lower-bound ppb values, and censoring notes.
• data/evidence/category5_apple_juice_arsenic_speciation_summary.csv: deterministic lower-bound iAs summary rows for apple-containing juice and broader not-canned juice context.

Key Numbers

FDA reports Trace (TR) when species results are above the limit of detection and below the limit of quantitation. The generated lower-bound summary treats those TR cells as 0 ppb, preserves quantified cells as reported, and records the calculation rule in the evidence register. No total-arsenic value is substituted for inorganic arsenic.

Evidence Fitness

This is EF-2 reconstructable evidence: the source table provides sample-level values and the lower-bound percentiles are deterministic nearest-rank calculations from the checked sample extract. It is stronger than a narrative or mean-only source, but it remains one historical FDA dataset and should not be published as an HMTc row-standard aggregate by itself.

Limitations

• The dataset is apple juice only; it does not resolve non-apple fruit juices or full not-canned fruit-juice aggregation.
• The table does not make current-market claims or brand rankings.
• TR handling creates a documented lower-bound summary, not a source-reported percentile.
• Total arsenic remains separate from inorganic arsenic, and DMA/MMA are not combined into the iAs value.

Wiki Pages Updated On Ingest

• Fruit Juices, Apple-Containing
• Fruit Juice (Not Canned)

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