Great product, sturdy and dependable. Just make sure to get the extra tool that helps open and close.

++++ The manufacture still claims they are food grade in their title, even though they are not FDA approved. ++++ See comments below, in comments section.

Purchased for food storage. They have a rubber seal in the lid. Nice and heavy pails. Exactly what I expected.
The seller provided a letter from the manufacturer certifying their pails are food grade, when used at room temperatures or below.

UPDATE: A lot of confusion about #2 HDPE for food use. Found this info.

Typical 5 gallon `food grade' buckets are made of #2 HDPE, and are opaque, not allowing light to penetrate, while often advertised or labeled as `food grade'. The typical `blue' water storage containers or barrels are also made of high density polyethylene (#2 HDPE). The thing is, if you will be storing food directly in the bucket or if you will be using the container for drinking water, be sure to verify the material is safe before you purchase. Be safe.

*note
To be safe, the buckets that you choose to use for food storage should be `food grade' (unless you are inserting sealed Mylar bags).

All food grade buckets are made of HDPE #2 (high density polyethylene) but not all HDPE #2 buckets are food grade. Buckets that are not food grade will out-gas and leach into the container, and whatever is in the container.

HDPE #2 buckets that are not food grade will have been manufactured with a non-food-grade "mold release agent".

A mold release agent is what is used to help get the newly shaped plastic off of the hard mold that it was shaped from during the manufacturing process. Without the release agent, the new plastic shape will likely stick to the mold. Some mold release agents enable much faster production than others, but may be toxic to your health if later used with food stuffs.

If the bucket is marked specifically as food grade or USDA approved (or FDA or NSF approved), then it is food grade. Otherwise contact the supplier or manufacturer to confirm.

bucket garden ~ root hormone Organic Fertilizer Bloom Booster ~~ Potting Soil

Have established a bucket graden for dragons head moldovia balm milkweed, common sagebrush gipsywort glade purple coneflower sage white
that gives off a smell of enchantingly delightful pentrate pentrate emits prayers. Been using 3 part formula for the root hormones
coupled with organic fertilizer and bloom booster in the potting soil. This has created for great starts when putting in the full
3 months into bottom potting soil where the seeds sit themselves that enhances the time by decreasing the need to water the growing plants themselves.
When the soil is moist with the 3 part forumla underneath as the seed emerges the plants sit themselves in two parts with the roots
going into the formula soil while the outer top part sits on the more dry soil area that was placed on top of the seeds as they lay there.

Use a combination of Scotts Miracle Gro 100645 Fast Root Hormone, Dr. Earth 707P Organic 8 Bud & Bloom Fertilizer in Poly Bag, 4-Pound, &
MG LB Bloom Booster as the 3 part formula. Place the whole 3 month supply of the combined formula at the same time in the soil have been using
Michigan Peat 1250 Baccto Premium Potting Soil, 50-Pound. Place the first part the bottom soil in the 5 Gallon White Bucket & Lid - Set of 3 - Durable 90 Mil All Purpose Pail - Food Grade - BPA Free Plastic -
usually get 2 sets being a total of 6 buckets and put the seeds on the formula enhanced soil itself with the second part of soil the top soil they grow through.
As the soil decreases in moisture the plants are already emerged out from the seeds leaving the remaining amount of liquid content there
for the forming plants with the 3 months supply of the 3 part formula already there.

Start the bucket garden inside about the last two to three weeks of winter during the start of early Spring. For the beginning part the growing seeds
don't need a light source when they are still emerging from the shells themselves. So when the start of growth as the plant emerges with leaf alone
use the Miracle-Gro 1001233 All Purpose Plant Food - 5 Pound for the bucket garden. Seeing about the 2nd month into early 3rd month the buckets
with the growing seeds and formulated soils have gone almost dry. By that point about early May it is time to put the 6 buckets that make up the bucket garden
of dragons head moldovia balm milkweed, common sagebrush gipsywort glade purple coneflower sage white that gives off a smell of enchantingly delightful pentrate pentrate emits prayers
outside for the remaining months until September or October.

bucket garden ~ root hormone Organic Fertilizer Bloom Booster ~~ Potting Soil (2)

Used it for making wine.

They're buckets in a box whoo whoo what whatttttttttttttttt. Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhh. Sent to...wait for it...your door! I put dog food in them. The dog food stays in there until I go in there and remove some to feed to my gorgeous, loving, cuddly, brilliant, cute, sweet and courageous dog. Good girl.