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Smithfield Foods Inc. · Meat/Poultry/Other Animals Sausages Prepared/Processed · barcode 00025468176951
What stands out
Nothing stands out: no published lab test names this product, no FDA recall lists its barcode and no ingredient on file is banned anywhere we track. Not tested is not the same as clean.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- AdditivesNone of the additives we track appear in the ingredients.
- TypicalFDA's tests of meat/poultry/other animals sausages prepared/processed show what's typical. See levels
Typical for meat/poultry/other animals sausages prepared/processed
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 7 of 22 samples, average 1.67, highest 7.1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 6 of 27 samples, average 1, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Salami, dry/hard: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.18, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 20 of 22 samples, average 2.85, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.09, highest 1.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Salami, dry/hard: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 0.54, highest 2.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 0 of 22 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 2 of 22 samples, average 0.33, highest 4.2 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Frankfurter (beef/pork), boiled: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 11, highest 36 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pork sausage (link/patty), oven-cooked: found in 7 of 20 samples, average 3.15, highest 41 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)
Turkey, Mechanically Separated Turkey, Salt, Spices, Corn Syrup Solids, Dextrose, Spice Extractives, Beef Collagen Casing.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-03-19. Labels change; check the package.