Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00021130085460

Belgian Style Mini Eclairs, Belgian Style

Signature Select · Safeway, Inc.

FDA recalls

• 2018-04-18 · Class II · Completed Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenesPoppies International INC: GFS Belgian Mini Chocolate Topped Eclairs, Keep Frozen, Net Wt . 700 g.; Signature Select Belgian Style Mini Eclairs, Keep Frozen, 420 g; Delizza Patisserie Belgian Custard Cream Mini Eclairs, 420 g. FDA record F-1141-2018

Typical for cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

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

• Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  26% of a toddler's daily limit

  7% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  7% of a toddler's daily limit

  2% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, average 1.88, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)

"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)

WATER, CREAM, EGGS, DARK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN, VANILLA), SUGAR, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OILS (PALM, COCONUT), MODIFIED STARCH, WHEY, SKIM MILK, DEXTROSE, STABILIZERS (SODIUM CASEINATE, SODIUM ALGINATE), SALT, CALCIUM CARBONATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BETA-CAROTENE (COLOR).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.

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