Mary B's Sausage, Egg & Cheese Handmade Buttermilk Biscuit Melts, Sausage, Egg & Cheese

J&J Snack Foods Corp · Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches, Biscuits & Meals · barcode 00020593000607

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 breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

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. Applies to all of them.
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. Applies to Partially hydrogenated oils, Bleached flour, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, DATEM, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to DATEM, BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

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

DATEM (E472e)

Only the shared rules above.

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

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

Typical for frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals

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 15.9 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 940 g (33 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).
One serving (1 biscuit melt, 136 g, from the label):
14% of a toddler's daily limit
3% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.63 ppb (FDA, 84 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 Biscuits, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.42, highest 6.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.79, highest 9.7 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 19.4, highest 26 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 28.6, highest 39 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 13.3, highest 16 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1.1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.9, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Eggs, boiled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.09, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 5.36, highest 34.6 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 16 of 20 samples, average 2.81, highest 6 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)

BISCUIT BASE (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR BLEACHED [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], CULTURED NONFAT DRY MILK, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE], SOYBEAN OIL, PALM OIL, SALT, SUGAR, WHEAT STARCH, DRY BUTTERMILK, SODIUM CASEINATE, DRY WHEY, DATEM, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM SULFATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM, SODIUM CITRATE, CARRAGEENAN, DEXTROSE, WATER, ENZYMES, DEXTRIN), WATER, PALM OIL WITH LECITHIN, COOKED SAUSAGE (PORK, WATER, SALT, SEASONING [DEXTROSE, SUGAR, SPICES, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, BHT, PROPYL GALLATE, CITRIC ACID], SODIUM PHOSPHATE), COOKED SCRAMBLED EGGS (WHOLE EGGS, EGG YOLK, SOYBEAN OIL, GLYCERIN, DRIED WHOLE EGG, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, XANTHAN GUM), MEDIUM CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLORING]), POTATO SHREDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF THE FOLLOWING: CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHEDDAR CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ANNATTO EXTRACT, CULTURE, ENZYMES], CANOLA OIL, NONFAT MILK, SALT, NATURAL FLAVORS, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [CONTAINS NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], CITRIC ACID, MONOGLYCERIDES, DRIED ONION, SPICES AND SPICE EXTRACTIVES [INCLUDING ANNATTO AND PAPRIKA], XANTHAN GUM, TOCOPHEROLS), COUNTRY GRAVY MIX (CREAMER [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE, MONO- & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, CARRAGEENAN, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, WHEAT FLOUR, SALT, RENDERED CHICKEN FAT, WHEY, CHICKEN BROTH, ONION, MALTODEXTRIN, GELATIN, SPICES AND SPICE EXTRACTIVES, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, TORULA YEAST), SWISS CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), MODIFIED POTATO STARCH, SALT, BLACK PEPPER, ONION FLAVOR (NATURAL FLAVOR, DRIED ONION JUICE), VEGETABLE FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, POTASSIUM LACTATE, FLAVORS, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, ALGINATE, WHEAT FLOUR, SUCCINIC ACID).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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