Charlie's Pork Sausage Fried Egg Cheddar Cheese Butter Cheese Buttermilk Biscuit
Triple 'B' Corporation · Breakfast Sandwiches, Biscuits & Meals · barcode 00045009854735
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals 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
- 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.
Partially hydrogenated oils
- US (FDA): Authorization revoked FDA determined in 2015 that they are no longer generally recognized as safe; makers had to remove them, with final compliance dates in 2018-2020. Labels on file may predate that. (80 FR 34650 (2015)) Source
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
Typical for breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals
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 12.3 ppb (FDA, 108 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.2 kg (2.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.6 kg (12 lb).One serving (8 oz, 227 g, from the label):19% of a toddler's daily limit4% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2.83 ppb (FDA, 108 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 Biscuits, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.42, highest 6.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.79, highest 9.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.63, highest 4.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 19.4, highest 26 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 28.6, highest 39 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 1.62, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1.1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.9, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.61, highest 3.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Eggs, boiled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.09, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 5.36, highest 34.6 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 19, highest 139 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)
BUTTERMILK BISCUIT: [ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID)], WATER, [SHORTENING (PALM OIL, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60, CITRIC ACID)], BUTTERMILK POWDER, SUGAR, [BAKING POWDER (SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, CORNSTARCH, CALCIUM SULFATE, MONOCALCIUM PHOSPHATE)], SALT, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES., PORK SAUSAGE PATTY: PORK, WATER, SALT, SPICES, DEXTROSE, SUGAR., FRIED EGG PATTY: EGG WHITES, EGG YOLKS, SOYBEAN OIL. CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR (MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES, BUTTER FAT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL AND COTTONSEED OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, EGG POWDER, ANNATTO EXTRACT), XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, WATER, EDTA., MILD CHEDDAR CHEESE: PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO (COLOR).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.