La Fe Pizza Filled With Tomato Sauce, Cheese, And Flavorful Seasoning Empanadas, Pizza

Gracekennedy Foods (USA) LLC · Frozen Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres · barcode 00023545104033

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. 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. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of frozen appetizers & hors d'oeuvres show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-09-14). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source. Applies to all of them.
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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.

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for frozen appetizers & hors d'oeuvres

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 12.7 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.3 kg (12 lb).
One serving (1 empanada, 85 g, from the label):
7% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 44.4 ppb (FDA, 57 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 Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.16, highest 4.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.7, highest 8.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 12, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.13, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.56, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 757, highest 810 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 3.42, highest 12.5 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 6.03, highest 51 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)

CRUST: FLOUR (UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PALM OIL), LARD (REFINED LARD, BHA, BHT (PRESERVATIVES)), SALT, SUGAR, POTASSIUM SORBATE, EGG. FILLING: DICED TOMATOES (TOMATOES, TOMATO JUICE, SALT, CITRIC ACID, BASIL), PIZZA SAUCE (TOMATO CONCENTRATE {WATER, TOMATO PASTE}, SALT, CITRIC ACID, BASIL), TOMATO PASTE (TOMATOES, CITRIC ACID), GARLIC, SALT, SEASONING MIX (SALT, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, DEHYDRATED ONION, SPICES, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE), CHICKEN FLAVOR BASE (SALT, SUGAR, PALM OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, CORN STARCH, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, ONION POWDER, CHICKEN FAT, DEHYDRATED CHICKEN FAT, DEHYDRATED CHICKEN, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, TURMERIC, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, NATURAL FLAVOR), GARLIC POWDER, SUGAR, OREGANO, IMITATION MOZZARELLA CHEESE (WATER, STARCH, PALM OIL, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, CASEINATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID {PRESERVATIVE}, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, ANTICAKING MIX (CORN STARCH, POTATO STARCH, CELLULOSE, DEXTROSE, GLUCOSE OXIDASE (ENZYME)), MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-09-14. Labels change; check the package.

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