Giant Eagle Stuffed Pretzel Bread Sandwiches, Philly Steak & Cheese

Giant Eagle, Inc. · Frozen Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres · barcode 00030034084189

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils and Titanium dioxide, which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. 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 2021-07-29). 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.

Partially hydrogenated oils

US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
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

Titanium dioxide (E171)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) Source

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 stuffed sandwich, 113 g, from the label):
10% 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)

UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED BEEF STEAK GROUND AND FORMED (CONTAINS UP TO 13% SOLUTION OF: WATER, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CARAMEL COLOR, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVOR, BEEF STOCK, PALM KERNEL OIL, SUNFLOWER OIL, BEEF FAT, THIAMINE HYDROCHLORIDE, SUCCINIC ACID), MOZZARELLA CHEESE WITH MODIFIED FOOD STARCH (PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), ONIONS, PROVOLONE CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), SOYBEAN OIL AND PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: ONIONS, CHEESE SEASONING (CORN MALTODEXTRIN, WHEY, WHEAT FLOUR, PALM OIL, SALT, CHEDDAR CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], GRANULAR CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SUNFLOWER OIL, CORN SYRUP, METHYLCELLULOSE, BUTTERMILK POWDER, LACTIC ACID, FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, BLUE CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, DISODIUM AND GUANYLATE, SODIUM CASEINATE, ANNATTO, TURMERIC), SEASONING (RICE FLOUR, CORN STARCH, WHEAT STARCH, SALT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED], SODIUM ALGINATE), PALM OIL (WITH LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVORS, BETA CAROTENE), WHEY, SUGAR, RED AND GREEN PEPPERS, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SEASONING (BUTTERMILK POWDER, NON FAT MILK SOLIDS, PARMESAN CHEESE [PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, MALTODEXTRIN, SUGAR, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, CHEDDAR CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE & GUANYLATE, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, SPICE, SUCCINIC ACID, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], EXTRACTIVES OF ANNATTO, EXTRACTIVES OF TURMERIC), DOUGH CONDITIONER (CALCIUM SULFATE, SALT, L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE, DEODORIZED GARLIC POWDER, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, FUNGAL ENZYMES, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEY, ETHOXYLATED MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, WHEAT FLOUR), SALT, YEAST, BEEF FLAVOR, ONION JUICE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SODIUM HYDROXIDE

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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