Conagra Brands BANQUET Fish Sticks Meal, 7.3 OZ

Conagra Brands · Ready-Made Combination Meals · barcode 00031000109431

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of ready-made combination meals show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2020-02-27). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

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
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
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

Typical for ready-made combination meals

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 7.87 ppb (FDA, 9 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.9 kg (4.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.7 kg (19 lb).
One serving (207 g, from the label):
11% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 2.67 ppb (FDA, 60 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4 kg (8.8 lb) a day; an adult at about 19 kg (42 lb).
One serving (207 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.2, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.63, highest 7.5 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.33, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 1.97, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Chili con carne w/ beans, canned: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 2.39, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)

"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)

MACARONI AND CHEESE SAUCE: COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI (WATER, ENRICHED MACARONI [DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE {IRON}, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), CHEDDAR CLUB CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO COLORING), WHEY, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, WHEAT FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CHEDDAR CHEESE FLAVOR (WHEY, CHEESE [GRANULAR AND BLUE {PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES}], SUNFLOWER OIL, MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID), BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, CITRIC ACID, CORN OIL, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR), TOCOPHEROLS. CHOCOLATE PUDDING: WATER, SUGAR, DAIRY PRODUCT SOLIDS (MODIFIED WHEY, REDUCED PROTEIN WHEY, WHEY SOLIDS), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SWEET CREAM POWDER (SWEET CREAM, NONFAT MILK, SODIUM CASEINATE, TOCOPHEROL), COCOA POWDER, MALTODEXTRIN, ACETIC ACID ESTERS OF MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SOY LECITHIN, SALT, SOYBEAN OIL, CELLULOSE GEL, CELLULOSE GUM, CITRIC ACID. FISH STICK: MINCED POLLOCK, BREADING (BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR [BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE {IRON} AND/OR REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: YELLOW CORN FLOUR, WHEY, SALT, SUGAR, RICE FLOUR, CORN STARCH, LEAVENING [BAKING SODA, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE], YEAST, CARAMEL COLOR, SODIUM CASEINATE, PAPRIKA OLEORESIN [COLOR], SOYBEAN OIL, MODIFIED CELLULOSE, OAT FIBER, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES). PARFRIED IN SOYBEAN OIL._x000D_CONTAINS: FISH (POLLACK), MILK, SOY, WHEAT.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2020-02-27. Labels change; check the package.

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