New Tests Find Little Arsenic in Apple Juice
After an intense public debate in September over whether apple juice contained unsafe levels of arsenic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released new data after additional juice testing and found that most of the samples contained low levels of the heavy metal. About 95 percent of the 160 juice samples the agency collected between 2005 and 2011 had total arsenic levels below 23 ppb (parts per billion), which the FDA considers at its “level of concern,” and nearly 88 percent had levels less than 10 ppb.
But there were eight samples — mostly from the U.S. — that contained high levels of arsenic. These results, however, were not reported in September when the agency released initial findings after TV’s Dr. Oz claimed apple juice had high levels of of the toxic metal. The FDA said at the the time, they were waiting to confirm the levels in these samples.
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