@Ease Philly Cheesesteak Seasoned Beef Steak Layered With A Blend Of Melted Cheeses, Onions And Red & Green Peppers In A Crispy Golden Crust Stuffed Sandwiches, Philly Cheesesteak

Topco Associates, Inc. · Frozen Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres · barcode 00036800413764

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. 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 2022-04-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

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
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

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, 127 g, from the label):
11% 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, FULLY COOKED SEASONED BEEF STEAK (BEEF, WATER, DEXTROSE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, SPICES, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, TOMATO POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, AUTOLYZED YEAST, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL SPICE OILS), LOW FAT MOZZARELLA CHEESE WITH MODIFIED FOOD STARCH ([PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], NON-FAT MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH), PROVOLONE CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, SALT, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), ONIONS, PALM OIL (WITH LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVORS, BETA CAROTENE), CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: RED & GREEN PEPPERS, SUGAR, FULLY HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL WITH SOY LECITHIN, 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, SWEET CREAM BUTTERMILK, LACTIC ACID, FLAVOR, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, BLUE CHEESE [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND GUANYLATE, SODIUM CASEINATE, ANNATTO, TURMERIC), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SEASONING (SWEET CREAM BUTTERMILK, 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, LACTIC ACID, EXTRACTIVES OF TURMERIC), FULLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, BEEF FLAVOR, SALT, DRIED EGG YOLKS, 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), YEAST, SOY LECITHIN, WHEY, SOY FLOUR, DRIED EGG WHITES, POWDERED CELLULOSE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-04-01. Labels change; check the package.

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