Charlie's Santa Fe Style Salad With Grilled Chicken Breast (With Rib Meat)

Triple 'B' Corporation · Deli Salads · barcode 00045009854117

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 deli salads 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.

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source
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
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
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
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 deli salads

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 14.3 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1 kg (2.2 lb) a day; an adult at about 4.9 kg (11 lb).
One serving (1 container, 283 g, from the label):
27% of a toddler's daily limit
6% of an adult's daily limit
Lead, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Cabbage, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cabbage, raw: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.51, highest 14 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.8, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cabbage, raw: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cabbage, raw: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.38, highest 6.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Mayonnaise: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Potato, peeled, boiled: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Mayonnaise, regular, bottled: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Potato, boiled (w/out peel): found in 5 of 20 samples, average 0.38, 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)

ROMAINE LETTUCE, DRESSING (MAYONNAISE [SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS AND EGG YOLKS, VINEGAR, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA {TO PROTECT QUALITY}, NATURAL FLAVORS], PICANTE SAUCE [CRUSHED TOMATOES {WATER, CRUSHED TOMATO CONCENTRATE}, WATER, JALAPENO PEPPERS, ONIONS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, SALT, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, NATURAL FLAVORING], BUTTERMILK [CULTURED REDUCED FAT MILK, SALT], SOUR CREAM [CULTURED PASTEURIZED CREAM AND MILK, NONFAT DRY MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, SODIUM CITRATE, LOCUST BEAN GUM], GREEN CHILI PEPPERS, FRENCH ONION SOUP MIX [DEHYDRATED ONIONS, POTATO STARCH, SALT, HYDROLYZED CORN PROTEIN, BEEF FAT, MALTODEXTRIN, LACTOSE {MILK}, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SUGAR, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, HYDROLYZED WHEAT PROTEIN, CARAMEL COLOR, NATURAL FLAVOR, ONION JUICE CONCENTRATE, GUM ARABIC, SPICE, BHA AND PROPYL GALLATE {USED TO PROTECT QUALITY}, CITRIC ACID], SOYBEAN OR CANOLA OIL, CHILI POWDER, CUMIN, POTASSIUM SORBATE), GRILLED SEASONED CHICKEN BREAST (CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, WATER, LESS THAN 2% POTATO STARCH, SALT, SUGAR, GRANULATED GARLIC, BLACK PEPPER), CORN (CORN, WATER, SUGAR, SALT), BLACK BEANS (WATER, BLACK BEANS, LESS THAN 2% OF: ONION POWDER, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, AND FERROUS GLUCONATE [TO PROMOTE COLOR RETENTION]), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO COLOR, POTATO STARCH, CORN STARCH, CELLULOSE POWDER ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING, NATAMYCIN [A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR]), TOMATOES, RED PEPPERS.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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