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Lay's Classic Potato Chips - 8oz: Gluten-Free, No Artificial Flavors
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Lay's Classic Potato Chips - 8oz: Gluten-Free, No Artificial Flavors

by Lay's

UPC 028400199148View product listing →
Sample lot number
4.29 249120213 045 09:30
Sample expiration date
Nov 3, 2026
Requested by
Canopy

Why test

Why test for Pesticide Screen?

Screens for common pesticide residues including organophosphates, pyrethroids, and neonicotinoids — neuroactive compounds that regulators limit because of documented health concerns, including effects studied most closely in children. None of it appears on the label, and levels can vary between products.

Requester’s note

These chips are super popular and potatoes can have high pesticide residues.

— Canopy

Result at a glance

No contaminants detected of 592 screened

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Lab results

Pesticide Screen

A concentration on its own doesn't tell you much — what matters for health is the dose, how much you actually take in. So each bar shows the amount of contaminant in a single serving (the lab's concentration × the labeled serving size, with raw numbers below), measured against daily-intake guidance from several organizations — some of which scales with body weight, so you can enter different weights for yourself or your household. And because we compare products within the same category and subcategory, you can see how similar options stack up and pick a lower-contaminant one.

Enter your body weight

Health limits that scale with body weight recalculate everywhere below. Kept for this session only — not saved to your account.

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0% of ADI
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Percent of ADI is calculated for each pesticide detected and the percentages are then summed to give a total for easy comparison. Products are graphed and sorted by these totals. Click the math button on any product to see each detected pesticide's contribution to the total. A product at 0% of ADI has no scored residue burden — nothing was detected, or every detected residue has no published EFSA ADI to score it against — so its bar is shown dotted rather than filled.

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How the test is performed

The food sample is blended and cleaned up using a quick preparation method called QuEChERS ("catchers"). The extract is then passed through GC-MS and LC-MS/MS that can separate and identify hundreds of different pesticides in a single run — like scanning a crowd and recognizing hundreds of faces at once.

Good foods to test

  • Strawberries & berries
  • Apples & stone fruit
  • Leafy greens (spinach, kale, lettuce)
  • Grapes & raisins
  • Bell peppers & hot peppers
  • Tomatoes
  • Oats & wheat products

Pledges towards this test (3)

Canopy

Sep 14, 2026

$401.00

carriedonovani

Sep 1, 2026

$50.00

Kendra

Aug 10, 2026

$50.00