Libby's Old Fashioned Country Sausage Gravy - #10 Can, 106 OZ

Conagra Brands Inc · Sauces/Spreads/Dips/Condiments · barcode 00039000031288

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 sauces/spreads/dips/condiments show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-04-27). 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.

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

Bleached flour

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
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

Typical for sauces/spreads/dips/condiments

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

Lead: typically 7.48 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 270 g (9.5 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb).
One serving (64 g, from the label):
24% of a toddler's daily limit
6% of an adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 16.2 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 940 g (33 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).
One serving (64 g, from the label):
7% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 4.35 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.83, highest 6.4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Sauce, barbecue: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 10.4, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Ketchup, tomato: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 20.7, highest 22 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 34.7, highest 38 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 19.7, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Sauce, barbecue: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 12.8, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Sauce, barbecue: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Ketchup, tomato: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Mustard, yellow, plain: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Sauce, barbecue: found in 22 of 27 samples, average 5.05, highest 9.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Tomato catsup: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.22, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Tomato salsa, bottled: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 4.93, highest 19 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Yellow mustard: found in 10 of 19 samples, average 0.88, highest 2 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)

Water, Sausage (Pork, Salt, Caramel Color, Modified Corn Starch, Flavoring, Monosodium Glutamate), Soybean Oil, Modified Corn Starch, Enriched Wheat Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Contains less than 2% of : Sodium Caseinate, Sugar, Dipotassium Phosphate, Salt, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Maltodextrin, Titanium Dioxide (color), Natural and Artificial Flavor, Cellulose Gum, Propyl Gallate. CONTAINS: MILK, WHEAT.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-04-27. Labels change; check the package.

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