Dudek Karoflane Placki Potato Pancakes, Karoflane Placki
Kowalski Companies Inc. · French Fries, Potatoes & Onion Rings · barcode 00038021003267
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Potassium bromate, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. 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 approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of french fries, potatoes & onion rings 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.
- 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.
Potassium bromate
- 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
- California: Banned from 2027-01-01 Banned in food made, sold or distributed in California after January 1, 2027. (AB 418 (2023)) 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 french fries, potatoes & onion rings
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 40 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 360 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.7 kg (3.7 lb).One serving (2 oz, 57 g, from the label):16% of a toddler's daily limit3% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.73 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Mercury, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Potato, with peel, baked: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.32, highest 12 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Potatoes, French fries, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.56, highest 15 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.8, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Potato, with peel, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 43, highest 66 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Potatoes, French fries, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 57.9, highest 100 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Potato, with peel, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Potatoes, French fries, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Potato, with peel, baked: found in 19 of 27 samples, average 4.31, highest 18 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Potatoes, French fries, fast-food: found in 23 of 27 samples, average 3.97, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Potato, baked (w/ peel): found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.53, highest 3 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Potato, boiled (w/out peel): found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.38, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Potato, french-fried, fast-food: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 6.68, highest 19 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)
POTATOES, ONION, FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, POTASSIUM BROMATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), EGGS, SUGAR, SALT, VEGETABLE WHITENER (SODIUM BISULFITE) AND PEPPER
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.