High Liner Sea Cuisine, Herb Crusted Cod
High Liner Foods (USA) Incorporated · Frozen Fish & Seafood · barcode 00035493294490
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils and Azodicarbonamide, 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 fish & seafood show what's typical. See levels
Fish advice for pregnancy, breastfeeding and children
On FDA and EPA's fish chart: Cod: Best Choice.
FDA and EPA advise people who are or may become pregnant, people who are breastfeeding, and parents of children 1 to 11:
- Pregnant or breastfeeding: 2 to 3 servings a week from the Best Choices list, or 1 serving a week from the Good Choices list. A serving is 4 ounces.
- Children: 2 servings a week from the Best Choices list. A serving is about 1 ounce at ages 1 to 3, 2 ounces at 4 to 7, 3 ounces at 8 to 10, and 4 ounces at 11.
By the week
EPA's daily limit for methylmercury adds up to about 49 µg a week for a 154-lb adult and 10.5 µg for a 33-lb toddler. A daily limit is an average over time, so one fish meal counts across the whole week.
- At FDA's average for cod, baked; fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked; shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails; tilapia, baked (31.5 ppb, 84 samples, 2017-2020; not a test of this product): about 14 servings of 4 ounces a week reach EPA's limit for a 154-lb adult; about 12 servings of 1 ounce for a 33-lb toddler.
Source: FDA and EPA, Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). Mercury in fish FDA tested
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). 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.
- 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.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Azodicarbonamide, Bleached flour.
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
Azodicarbonamide
- EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) Source
- 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
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for frozen fish & seafood
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Mercury: typically 28.1 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 48 g (1.7 oz) a day; an adult at about 220 g (7.8 oz).One serving (1 fillet, 140 g, from the label):▲ 2.9× a toddler's daily limit● 63% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 1,585 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Cod, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 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 Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 4.87, highest 28 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Tilapia, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cod, baked: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 2.19, highest 11 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 Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 18 of 27 samples, average 5.69, highest 36 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Tilapia, baked: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.06, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 83.4, highest 140 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 Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.19, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.68, highest 20 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4,915, highest 10,900 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 Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 358, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 117, highest 290 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 6.03, highest 51 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Shrimp, boiled: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 36, highest 147 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)
COD, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN, CANOLA, AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: SPICE, NATURAL LEMON FLAVOR, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, GARLIC POWDER, EGG WHITE, ONION POWDER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SOY FLOUR, YEAST EXTRACT, SUGAR, LACTIC ACID, SPICE EXTRACTIVES, WHITE CORN FLOUR, TORULA YEAST, YEAST, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL), CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR, OLIVE OIL, MONOGLYCERIDES (AS AN EMULSIFIER), DEXTROSE, SALT, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, PAPRIKA EXTRACT (COLOR), SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE (AS AN EMULSIFIER), LEAVENING (SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE), DOUGH CONDITIONERS (ASCORBIC ACID, L-CYSTEINE MONOHYDROCHLORIDE, AZODICARBONAMIDE), SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE (TO RETAIN MOISTURE).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.