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Seafood America Hot & Spicy Crab Cakes With Real & Imitation Crab And Fish Flakes, Hot & Spicy

Seafood America LLC · Fish & Seafood · barcode 00045425681526

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 fish & seafood show what's typical. See levels
  • Others4 other fish & seafood products have lab results. Compare them

Fish advice for pregnancy, breastfeeding and children

On FDA and EPA's fish chart: Crab: Best Choice.

FDA and EPA advise people who are or may become pregnant, people who are breastfeeding, and parents of children 1 to 11:

  • Pregnant or breastfeeding: 2 to 3 servings a week from the Best Choices list, or 1 serving a week from the Good Choices list. A serving is 4 ounces.
  • Children: 2 servings a week from the Best Choices list. A serving is about 1 ounce at ages 1 to 3, 2 ounces at 4 to 7, 3 ounces at 8 to 10, and 4 ounces at 11.

By the week

EPA's daily limit for methylmercury adds up to about 49 µg a week for a 154-lb adult and 10.5 µg for a 33-lb toddler. A daily limit is an average over time, so one fish meal counts across the whole week.

  • At FDA's average for cod, baked; salmon, steaks/fillets, baked; shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails; tilapia, baked (29.5 ppb, 108 samples, 2017-2020; not a test of this product): about 15 servings of 4 ounces a week reach EPA's limit for a 154-lb adult; about 13 servings of 1 ounce for a 33-lb toddler.

Source: FDA and EPA, Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). Mercury in fish FDA tested

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). 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 fish & seafood

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

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Cod, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 4.87, highest 28 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Tilapia, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cod, baked: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 2.19, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 13 of 27 samples, average 1.6, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 18 of 27 samples, average 5.69, highest 36 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Tilapia, baked: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.06, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 83.4, highest 140 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.8, highest 46 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 7.19, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.68, highest 20 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4,915, highest 10,900 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 376, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 358, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 117, highest 290 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 4 of 20 samples, average 0.88, highest 12.1 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Shrimp, boiled: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 36, highest 147 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)

CRABMEAT, CRAB SURIMI (FISH PROTEIN [POLLOCK AND/OR WHITING], WATER, WHEAT STARCH, SUGAR, SORBITOL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: SOYBEAN OIL, SALT, MIRIN WINE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CRAB FLAVOR, GEL FIBER, CALCIUM CARBONATE, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE, TETRASODIUM PYROPHOSPHATE), CELERY, FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR ENRICHED [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE, MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], MALTED BARLEY FLOUR), BREAD CRUMBS (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, YEAST, SUGAR, SALT), MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLK, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CONTAIN LESS THAN 2% OF: SALT, WATER, MUSTARD SEED, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA), MILK, BUTTER (CREAM, SALT), HOT SAUCE (AGED RED CAYENNE PEPPERS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, XANTHAN GUM), JALAPENO PEPPERS (JALAPENO PEPPERS, WATER, VINEGAR, SALT, SUGAR, SPICES, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), ONIONS, SEASONINGS (MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALT, SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE, MALTODEXTRIN, SPICES [INCLUDING CELERY SEED], HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, DEXTROSE, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, SOYBEAN OIL [AS A PROCESSING AID], PAPRIKA, ONION POWDER, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, CELLULOSE GUM, CELLULOSE POWDER, NOT MORE THAN 2% SILICONE DIOXIDE), CRACKER MEAL (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUNFLOWER OIL), BATTER (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SALT), GREEN PEPPERS, GROUND CAYENNE PEPPER, SODIUM CHLORIDE, NATURAL ROSEMARY EXTRACT, MALTODEXTRIN, CULTURED DEXTROSE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.

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