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Safeway, Inc. · Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt · barcode 00021130141890

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red), 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 ice cream & frozen yogurt show what's typical. See levels
  • Others3 other ice cream & frozen yogurt products have lab results. Compare them

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

  • 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Bleached flour.
  • US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Bleached flour, DATEM.

Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Red No. 40 as a certified color additive. Source
  • EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E129, 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
  • 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

Bleached flour

Only the shared rules above.

DATEM (E472e)

  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472e. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for ice cream & frozen yogurt

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 Ice cream, chocolate: found in 18 of 27 samples, average 3.96, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26 samples, average 0.15, highest 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.27, highest 15 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 0.45, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.49, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26 samples, average 0.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Ice cream, regular, vanilla: found in 19 of 19 samples, average 6.81, highest 12 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)

SKIM MILK, SUGAR, CREAM, CORN SYRUP, ENRICHED UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CONDENSED SKIM MILK, SOYBEAN, PALM, PALM KERNEL, AND COCONUT OILS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: COCOA ALKALI PROCESSED, DEXTROSE, COCOA, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, MARGARINE (LIQUID AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, SALT, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS [SODIUM BENZOATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA], CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, COLOR [BETA CAROTENE], VITAMIN A PALMITATE ADDED), HYDROGENATED COCONUT OIL, CORN FLOUR, COLOR (CARAMEL COLOR, ANNATTO, BETA CAROTENE), SALT, WHEY, BAKING SODA, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS (POTASSIUM SORBATE), CITRIC ACID, SODIUM CASEINATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM, CELLULOSE GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POLYSORBATE 60, POLYGLYCEROL ESTERS OF FATTY ACIDS, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, CARBOHYDRATE GUM, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM. CARAMEL TURTLE ALSO CONTAINS: PECANS, SWEETENED CONDENSED SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK, SUGAR), BUTTER (CREAM). FUDGE BROWNIE ALSO CONTAINS: BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, EGGS, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, WALNUTS, EGG WHITES, EGG YOLKS, SWEETENED CONDENSED SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK, SUGAR), MALTODEXTRIN, CARRAGEENAN, PROPYLENE GLYCOL MONO AND DIESTERS OF FATS AND FATTY ACIDS, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, DATEM, WHEAT STARCH. COOKIES & CREAM ALSO CONTAINS: INVERT SUGAR, LEAVENING (MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), CORNSTARCH. BANANA SPLIT ALSO CONTAINS: MARASCHINO CHERRIES (CHERRIES, WATER, CORN SYRUP, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS [POTASSIUM SORBATE, SODIUM BENZOATE, SULFITING AGENTS], ARTIFICIAL COLOR [RED 40]), STRAWBERRIES, BANANA PUREE (BANANAS, SUGAR, WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, NATURAL FLAVOR, MODIFIED CORNSTARCH, CITRIC ACID, ASCORBIC ACID, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS [SODIUM BENZOATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE]), ALMONDS, CARRAGEENAN, ADIPIC ACID, TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS (SODIUM BENZOATE), ARTIFICIAL COLOR (RED 40).

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

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