Lunds & Byerlys Lemon Dill Tuna Salad
Byerly Foods International · Prepared Subs & Sandwiches · barcode 00018169667729
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of prepared subs & sandwiches show what's typical. See levels
Fish advice for pregnancy, breastfeeding and children
On FDA and EPA's fish chart: Tuna, canned light (includes skipjack): Best Choice; Tuna, albacore/white tuna, canned and fresh/frozen: Good Choice; Tuna, yellowfin: Good Choice; Tuna, bigeye: Choice to Avoid.
FDA and EPA advise people who are or may become pregnant, people who are breastfeeding, and parents of children 1 to 11:
- Pregnant or breastfeeding: 2 to 3 servings a week from the Best Choices list, or 1 serving a week from the Good Choices list. A serving is 4 ounces.
- Children: 2 servings a week from the Best Choices list. A serving is about 1 ounce at ages 1 to 3, 2 ounces at 4 to 7, 3 ounces at 8 to 10, and 4 ounces at 11.
Source: FDA and EPA, Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). Mercury in fish FDA tested
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
- EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) 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: Banned in school meals from 2028-2029 school year Banned in Louisiana school food from the 2028-2029 school year (concession stands and vending machines exempt). (SB 14, Act 463 (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 prepared subs & sandwiches
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Cadmium: typically 18.6 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 780 g (28 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).One serving (1 sandwich, 184 g, from the label):24% of a toddler's daily limit5% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 5.31 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.91, highest 6.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.6, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.4, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.2, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.74, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.03, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.83, highest 9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Bologna (beef/pork): found in 15 of 20 samples, average 112, highest 1,557 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Luncheon meat (ham): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 20.6, highest 56.4 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)
LEMON DILL TUNA SALAD (YELLOWFIN TUNA [TUNA WATER, VEGETABLE BROTH {PEAS & CARROTS}, SALT] MAYONNAISE [SOYBEAN OIL, WHOLE EGGS, VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS WATER, SALT DEXTROSE SUGAR LEMON JUICE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA {PROTECTS QUALITY} NATURAL FLAVORS], CELERY YELLOW ONION, DIJON MUSTARD [WATER, VINEGAR, MUSTARD SEED SALT WHITE WINE FRUIT PECTIN, CITRIC ACID, TARTARIC ACID, SUGAR, SPICE], LEMON JUICE LEMON PEEL RICE VINEGAR [WATER, RICE], FRESH CHOPPED DILL, SUGAR, SEA SALT [NATURAL SEA SALT MAGNESIUM CARBONATE], LEMON PEPPER [SALT, BLACK PEPPER CITRIC ACID DEHYDRATED ONION DEHYDRATED GARLIC, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, YELLOW 5 LAKE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN LESS THAN 2% SILICON DIOXIDE {PREVENTS CAKING}], XANTHAN GUM, CAYENNE PEPPER), COUNTRY WHITE BREAD (UNBLEACHED BREAD FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR NIACIN IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, HONEY BUTTERMILK [BUTTERMILK WHEY], LESS THAN 2% OF CANOLA OIL, SALT, MALT [MALTED BARLEY, WHEAT FLOUR, DEXTROSE] WHEAT GLUTEN, YEAST, WHEAT FLOUR, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES RYE FLOUR) ROMAINE LETTUCE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.