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Lucerne Cream Cheese With Smoked Salmon, Smoked Salmon

Safeway, Inc. · Cheese · barcode 00021130048441

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red) and Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), which have 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.
  • Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of cheese show what's typical. See levels
  • Others1 other cheese product has lab results. Compare them

Fish advice for pregnancy, breastfeeding and children

On FDA and EPA's fish chart: Salmon: Best Choice.

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 2023-02-16). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

  • US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
  • EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to all of them.
  • 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. Applies to all of them.
  • 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. Applies to all of them.
  • West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to all of them.
  • 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: 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. 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 all of them.

Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)

Only the shared rules above.

Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for cheese

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Cheese, American, processed: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.1, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.8, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.23, highest 2.9 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, American, processed: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.2, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, American, processed: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 12, highest 49 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, Swiss, natural: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 5.14, highest 17 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, cheddar, natural (sharp/mild): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 7.05, highest 69 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)

PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, WHEY, SMOKED SALMON, SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SUGAR, GUAR GUM, BROWN SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVOR, CAROB BEAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, DILL WEED*, RED 40, YELLOW 6, VITAMIN A PALMITATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-02-16. Labels change; check the package.

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