Pepperoni Wrapped In A Crispy Browned Crust Pizza, Pepperoni

The Moran Group Incorporated · Pizza · barcode 00051933310520

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and Titanium dioxide, which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022; West Virginia ban from 2028. 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 allowed in the EU since 2022; 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 2023-11-16). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source. Applies to BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).
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 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 BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene).

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

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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

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 (6 pieces, 85 g, from the label):
12% of a toddler's daily limit
3% 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)

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, PEPPERONI (PORK, BEEF, SALT, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS DEXTROSE, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, FLAVORINGS, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID, MAY ALSO CONTAIN SODIUM ASCORBATE, SPICES), TOMATO PASTE (TOMATOES), IMITATION MOZZARELLA CHEESE (WATER, PALM OIL, CASEIN [MILK PROTEIN], MOZZARELLA CHEESE [PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES], CORN STARCH, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS NATURAL FLAVOR, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SODIUM CITRATE, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], TITANIUM DIOXIDE, ANTI-CAKING BLEND [CORN STARCH, POTATO STARCH, CELLULOSE, DEXTROSE, GLUCOSE OXIDASE]), VEGETABLE OIL, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SUGAR, SEASONING (SUGAR, PARMESAN CHEESE POWDER [PARMESAN CHEESE {MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES}, WHEY, NATURAL FLAVOR, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID], SPICES, DEHYDRATED ONION, DEHYDRATED GARLIC, BEET POWDER [COLOR], HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SILICON DIOXIDE [ANTI-CAKING]), SALT, WHEY, METHYLCELLULOSE, NATURAL FLAVORS, SEA SALT, BAKING SODA.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-11-16. Labels change; check the package.

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