Vidalia Onion Beef Patties Made With 100% Angus Beef, Vidalia Onion
Boulder Burger Company · Frozen Patties and Burgers · barcode 00011225113536
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of frozen patties and burgers show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2019-04-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
- Texas: Warning label required from 2027-01-01 Labels developed on or after January 1, 2027 must warn that the product contains an ingredient not recommended for consumption in Australia, Canada, the EU or the UK. (SB 25 (2025)) Source
- Louisiana: Warning label required from 2028-01-01 Products containing it must carry a QR code disclosure from January 1, 2028. (SB 14, Act 463 (2025)) Source
Typical for frozen patties and burgers
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.76 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Veggie burger: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.47, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 15 of 27 samples, average 0.85, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Veggie burger: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 17, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Veggie burger: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.06, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 5.54, highest 48 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Veggie burger: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.4, highest 5.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beef, ground, regular, pan-cooked: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"Typically" is FDA's middle sample. Daily amounts use the long-run average and each chemical's daily limit (EPA reference dose, or FDA's level for lead) for a 33-lb toddler and a 154-lb adult. ppb = micrograms per kilogram of food. Source: FDA Total Diet Study.
Not tested
No published results for this product cover: Metals, Perchlorate, Phthalates (plastic softeners), Phthalate substitutes, Bisphenols. That means nobody has published a test, not that these are absent.
Ingredients (from the label)
ANGUS BEEF, VIDALIA ONION, ENCAPSULATED SALT (SALT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), SEASONING (POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORS), SPICE, NATURAL FLAVOR.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-04-01. Labels change; check the package.