The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched the Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool, an online database that consolidates contaminant levels in human foods.
To protect public health, the FDA sets tolerances, action levels and guidance levels to help assess food safety. The tool provides a searchable list of contaminants, commodities, level types, values and regulatory references. Users can also filter data by contaminant type, making it a valuable resource for food safety.
“Ideally there would be no contaminants in our food supply, but chemical contaminants may occur in food when they are present in the growing, storage or processing environments,” said acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner.
