Imo's Sausage, Bacon, Green Peppers, Mushrooms, Red Onions Deluxe Pizza, Sausage, Bacon, Green Peppers, Mushrooms, Red Onions
Roma Grocery Co. · Other Deli · barcode 00047861000046
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Potassium bromate and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU; California ban from 2027. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of other deli show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-07). 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: 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. Applies to Potassium bromate, BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
- 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.
- EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
Potassium bromate
- EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) Source
- California: Banned from 2027-01-01 Banned in food made, sold or distributed in California after January 1, 2027. (AB 418 (2023)) Source
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)
- 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
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for other deli
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 0.583 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 13 kg (29 lb) a day; an adult at about 59 kg (130 lb).One serving (0.333 pizza, 208 g, from the label):2% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% 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 Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Salami, dry/hard: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.18, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.4, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.2, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 6 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salami, dry/hard: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 0.54, highest 2.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.03, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.83, highest 9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Bologna (beef/pork): found in 15 of 20 samples, average 112, highest 1,557 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Luncheon meat (ham): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 20.6, highest 56.4 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)
PIZZA CRUST: FLOUR (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, POTASSIUM BROMATE), WATER, SHORTENING (BEEF FAT, SOYBEAN OIL, BHA, BHT AND CITRIC ACID), SALT: (YELLOW PRUSSIATE OF SODA, MAY ALSO CONTAIN TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, DEXTROSE, POTASSIUM IODIDE, SODIUM BICARBONATE), DOUGH CONDITIONER: (WHEY, (MILK), L-CYSTEINE HYDROCHLORIDE), YEAST (SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE, SORBITAN MONSTEARATE, ASCORBIC ACID), SUGAR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE. SAUCE: [WATER, TOMATO PASTE (TOMATOES), SUGAR, SPICES (DEHYDRATED ONION, SALT, SPICES (BLACK PEPPER, BASIL), DEHYDRATED GARLIC, SOYBEAN OIL, SODIUM BENZOATE (2.63%))], PROVEL CHEESE: [CHEDDAR, SWISS, AND PROVOLONE CHEESE), (CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK AND PART SKIM MILK, WATER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILKFAT, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 0.5% OF LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, ENZYMES, SMOKE FLAVOR], SAUSAGE: (PORK, WATER, SALT, SPICES INCLUDING FENNEL SEED, BLACK PEPPER, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, SOYBEAN OIL, SILICON DIOXIDE, PAPRIKA, PARSLEY, BHA AND BHT), BACON: (CURED WITH; WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE) MAY CONTAIN SMOKE FLAVOR, MUSHROOMS: (WATER, SALT, CITRIC ACID, MAY CONTAIN ASCORBIC ACID ANTIOXIDNT, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA TO MAINTAIN COLOR), GREEN PEPPERS, ONIONS, OREGANO AND GRATED ROMANO CHEESE: (PASTEURIZED COW'S MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), OREGANO, POWDERED CELLULOSE (ANTI-CAKING AGENT).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-07. Labels change; check the package.