Northernlights Pizza Company's Amazing Sauce, Garlic Butter, Garlic Butter
Arcobasso Foods, Inc. · Other Cooking Sauces · barcode 00018959003478
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 other cooking sauces show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). 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 other cooking sauces
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.
- Lead: typically 6.98 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 280 g (9.9 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb).One serving (1 tbsp, 15 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Cadmium: typically 13.7 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.2 kg (11 lb).One serving (1 tbsp, 15 g, from the label):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 4.65 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, barbecue: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 10.4, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 0.7, highest 1.1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, barbecue: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 12.8, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 20.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 24.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, barbecue: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, barbecue: found in 22 of 27 samples, average 5.05, highest 9.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.1, highest 5.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.69, highest 5 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)
BUTTER FLAVORED OIL (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, SOY LECITHIN, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT (CONTAINS BARLEY, SOY, MILK AND EGG COMPONENTS), GARLIC PEPPER (DEHYDRATED VEGETABLES (GARLIC, ONION, RED BELL PEPPERS), SALT, BLACK PEPPER, BROWN SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVORS, PARSLEY, SOYBEAN OIL), GARLIC SALT WITH PARSLEY (SALT, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SUGAR, PARSLEY, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOYBEAN OIL), SPICE.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.