Food Club Beef Flavored Rice & Vermicelli Mix With Beef Broth & Herbs Rice Medley, Beef

Topco Associates, Inc. · Flavored Rice Dishes · barcode 00036800914759

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of flavored rice dishes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-03-19). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source. Applies to all of them.
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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.

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for flavored rice dishes

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 6.2 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.6 kg (21 lb).
One serving (2.5 oz, 70 g, from the label):
3% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 53.5 ppb (FDA, 54 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 Rice, brown, cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.98, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.54, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 8 of 27 samples, average 0.36, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.05, highest 1.4 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Rice, brown, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 64.3, highest 88 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 44.8, highest 75 ppb (2017-2020)
Inorganic arsenic in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 1 of 1 sample, average 41.6, highest 41.6 ppb (2019)
Perchlorate in Rice, white, enriched, cooked: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.55, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)

Left out of the summary above: Inorganic arsenic, Perchlorate. FDA measured them 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)

ENRICHED LONG GRAIN RICE [RICE (NIACIN, IRON (FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE), THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID)], ENRICHED VERMICELLI [DURUM WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON (FERROUS SULFATE), THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (SOY, WHEAT, CORN), SALT, DEHYDRATED VEGETABLES (CARROT, GARLIC), ONION POWDER, BEEF FLAVOR [HYDROLYZED CORN & SOY PROTEIN, SALT, DEXTROSE, BEEF FAT, VEGETABLE OIL, CARAMEL COLOR, CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, SPICE, BHA AND BHT (ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS)], SUGAR, CARAMEL COLOR, CORNSTARCH, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, INACTIVE BAKER'S YEAST, LESS THAN 2% SILICON DIOXIDE (FOR ANTI-CAKING).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-03-19. Labels change; check the package.

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