Spoon Scout - Food Contaminant Lookup

Looks up one US packaged food by barcode (UPC/EAN/GTIN), id, or name, and returns what is known about it: lab results by chemical (with kind of evidence, sample counts, median and highest values in ppb, lots, dates and sources), FDA recalls naming its barcode, restricted additives in its ingredients with each jurisdiction's rule, FDA's typical levels for its kind of food, same-brand products that

For one contaminant (lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic-total, arsenic-inorganic, perchlorate, a phthalate such as dehp or dbp, a substitute such as deht, or a bisphenol such as bpa), returns the everyday foods where FDA's Total Diet Study found the highest typical levels (with samples, detections, averages and years), named products with lab results (highest median first), recent FDA recalls naming

Lines up two to five products (by id) chemical by chemical, using each product's own lab results where they exist and FDA's typical level for its kind of food otherwise (marked as typical), plus restricted additives and recall counts.

For a kind of food (a category slug such as milk, rice, baby-infant-foods-beverages, cereal, water), returns FDA's typical levels of metals and perchlorate, whether FDA's foods are a close or rough stand-in, and the products in that category with lab results: the 50 lowest in the most-tested chemical by default (products below the lab's limit first), with tested_total giving the full count. Pass s

Returns where an additive is allowed, restricted, banned or requires a warning (US FDA, EU, and US states such as California, West Virginia, Texas and Louisiana), each with its law and effective date, plus how many products list it and examples.

Places a person's urine or blood test result among CDC NHANES population percentiles (newest survey cycle loaded), for everyone or one age group, and says in words how high it is. tier.level is below_median, median_to_95th, top_5_percent or far_above (at least twice the 95th percentile; CDC's tables stop at the 95th, so times_95th_percentile gives the multiple); a far_above result carries clear_li