Cakes, Cupcakes, Snack Cakes · barcode 00041172812909

Vintage Creamery

Red Button · Associated Food Stores, Inc.

FDA recalls

• 2022-12-28 · Class II · Terminated Pies labeled as Red Button French Silk may contain Turtle Cream Pies containing almonds which are not declared on the French Silk label.Rocky Mountain Pies, LLC: Red Button Vintage Creamery French Silk Pie, Net Wt. 31.88 oz. (904g), in a clear plastic dome and black plastic base, UPC 0 41172 81290 9, Distributed By: Associated Food Stores, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119 RMYA0421" printed on sleeve. Keep refrigerated. FDA record F-0206-2023

Typical for cakes, cupcakes, snack cakes

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

• Lead: typically 3.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 380 g (13 oz) a day; an adult at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  26% of a toddler's daily limit

  7% of a adult's daily limit
• Cadmium: typically 9.7 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb) a day; an adult at about 6.4 kg (14 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  7% of a toddler's daily limit

  2% of a adult's daily limit
• Arsenic (total): typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
• Perchlorate: typically 1.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 4.5 kg (9.9 lb) a day; an adult at about 21 kg (46 lb).
  One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):

  2% of a toddler's daily limit

  under 1% of a adult's daily limit
• Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

• Lead in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 8.92, highest 16 ppb (2017-2020)
• Lead in Cake, white with white icing: found in 9 of 27, average 2.56, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 27 of 27, average 17.6, highest 40 ppb (2017-2020)
• Cadmium in Cake, white with white icing: found in 27 of 27, average 4.13, highest 6.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 1.9 ppb (2017-2020)
• Mercury in Cake, white with white icing: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, chocolate with chocolate icing: found in 25 of 27, average 3.6, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
• Arsenic (total) in Cake, white with white icing: found in 10 of 27, average 1.72, highest 7.4 ppb (2017-2020)
• Perchlorate in Cake, chocolate w/ icing: found in 12 of 20, average 2.76, highest 14 ppb (2008-2012)
• Perchlorate in Cake, white w/ icing (formerly yellow cake): found in 12 of 20, average 1.88, highest 9 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)

SUGAR, PALM OIL, EGGS, ENRICHED FLOUR (FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), BUTTER, WATER, FUDGE ICING, HALF & HALF, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: COCOA, CHOCOLATE LIQUOR (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), DEXTROSE, SODIUM CASEINATE (A MILK DERIVATIVE), COCOA BUTTER, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, SALT, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, XANTHAN GUM, FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, GUAR GUM, BETA CAROTENE (COLOR) SOY LECITHIN, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.

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