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Cheez-it Extra Spicy Flavored Baked Snack Crackers, Extra Spicy

Sunshine Biscuits, Inc. · Flavored Snack Crackers · barcode 00024100001026

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), 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.
  • Additives4 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of flavored snack crackers show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-05-23). 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 Red No. 40 (Allura Red), Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine).
  • 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.

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

Only the shared rules above.

Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)

  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for flavored snack crackers

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 Crackers, butter-type: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.43, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.83, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Crackers, saltine: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.37, highest 4.1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 35.7, highest 43 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Crackers, cheese: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 21.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 28, highest 35 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Crackers, butter-type: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Crackers, cheese: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Crackers, saltine: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Crackers, butter-type: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.6, highest 7.9 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Crackers, cheese: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.13, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Crackers, saltine: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.5, highest 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Crackers, butter-type: found in 16 of 20 samples, average 10.2, highest 37 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Crackers, saltine: found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.57, highest 3 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)

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN B1 [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN B2 [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (HIGH OLEIC SOYBEAN, SOYBEAN, PALM, AND/OR CANOLA OIL WITH TBHQ FOR FRESHNESS), CHEESE MADE WITH SKIM MILK (SKIM MILK, WHEY PROTEIN, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES, ANNATTO EXTRACT COLOR). CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, DEXTROSE, WHEY, PAPRIKA, SUGAR, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), BUTTERMILK, YEAST, MILKFAT, CITRIC ACID, YEAST EXTRACT, NONFAT MILK, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM DIACETATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, PAPRIKA EXTRACT COLOR, RED 40 LAKE, YELLOW 6 LAKE, YELLOW 5 LAKE, BLUE 1 LAKE, SOY LECITHIN.

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

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