Corky's Hickory-smoked Bar-b-q Pork Ribs With Apple Sauce, Hickory-smoked, Bar-b-q, Apple

Corky's Food Manufacturing, LP · Frozen Bacon, Sausages & Ribs · barcode 00035669901085

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Red No. 40 (Allura Red) and Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), 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.
Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of frozen bacon, sausages & ribs show what's typical. See levels

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

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to all of them.
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.

Typical for frozen bacon, sausages & ribs

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 950 g (34 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).
One serving (3 ribs with sauce, 140 g, from the label):
15% of a toddler's daily limit
3% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.63, highest 4.7 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)
Cadmium in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 1.62, highest 11 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)
Mercury in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 0 of 27 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)
Arsenic (total) in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.61, highest 3.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 19, highest 139 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)

"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)

PORK RIBS, CORKY'S APPLE BAR-B-Q SAUCE (HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WATER, TOMATO PASTE, BROWN SUGAR, APPLE SAUCE, VINEGAR, CORN SYRUP, APPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, CINNAMON, CITRIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), XANTHAN GUM, ORANGE JUICE CONCENTRATE, PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, GROUND RED PEPPER, NATURAL FLAVORS, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, WHITE PEPPER, GROUND CUMIN, GROUND ALLSPICE, FD&C RED #40, FD&C YELLOW #6).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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