Brew Pub BBQ Smoked Chicken BBQ Sauce, Smoked Chicken, Mozzarella & Cheddar Cheeses, Green Onion & Corn Chips Pizza, BBQ Smoked Chicken
Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. · Pizza · barcode 00042197003983
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 pizza show what's typical. See levels
- Others3 other pizza products have lab results. Compare them
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-10-26). 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.
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E320. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- 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
- 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 pizza
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 20 ppb (FDA, 27 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 730 g (26 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.4 kg (7.5 lb).One serving (1/4 pizza, 151 g, from the label):21% of a toddler's daily limit4% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 27 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 Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
"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)
CRUST (ENRICHED FLOUR [BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, ENZYME, FOLIC ACID], WATER, LARD [LARD, BHA, PROPYL GALLATE WITH CITRIC ACID ADDED TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR], DOUGH CONDITIONER [MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, DEXTROSE], SALT, SUGAR, YEAST [YEAST, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, ASCORBIC ACIDI]), LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES), BBQ SAUCE (SUGAR, WATER, TOMATO PASTE, VINEGAR, SALT, PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE [WATER, SALT, VINEGAR, SUGAR, MALIC ACID, MOLASSES, CITRIC ACID, DEHYDRATED ONION AND GARLIC, FOOD GUMS {ARABIC, XANTHAN, GUAR, CELLULOSE}, SPICES, DEXTROSE, NATURAL FLAVORS, SMOKE FLAVOR], LIQUID SMOKE, MUSTARD FLOUR, SPICES, SODIUM BENZOATE AS A PRESERVATIVE), SMOKED PULLED CHICKEN (CHICKEN, SEASONING [SPICES, SALT, SUGAR, GARLIC POWDER, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SILICON DIOXIDE AND SUNFLOWER OIL {TO PREVENT CAKING}], LESS THAN 2% OF POTASSIUM LACTATE, WATER, SODIUM DIACETATE, NATURAL HICKORY WOOD SMOKE FLAVOR), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLOR]), CORN CHIPS (CORN, CORN OIL, AND SALT), GREEN ONION.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-10-26. Labels change; check the package.