Pierre Chicken Breast Flame Broiled Sandwiches, Chicken Breast
AdvancePierre Foods Inc. · Frozen Patties and Burgers · barcode 00071421122831
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils and Azodicarbonamide, which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; not approved in the EU. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of frozen patties and burgers show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). 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.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Azodicarbonamide, Bleached flour.
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
Azodicarbonamide
- 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
- 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
Bleached flour
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for frozen patties and burgers
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.76 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Veggie burger: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.47, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 15 of 27 samples, average 0.85, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Veggie burger: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 17, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Veggie burger: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.06, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Turkey, ground, pan-cooked: found in 14 of 27 samples, average 5.54, highest 48 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Veggie burger: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 5.4, highest 5.9 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Beef, ground, regular, pan-cooked: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 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)
ENRICHED BUN [ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID, ENZYMES), WATER, SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OILS, SESAME SEEDS, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF YEAST, SALT, CALCIUM SULFATE, ENZYMES, MONO-GLYCERIDE, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, WHEAT STARCH, ASCORBIC ACID, AZODICARBONAMIDE, CALCIUM STEARATE, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, CITRIC ACID, SILICON DIOXIDE (FLOW AGENT), CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE)], FLAME BROILED CHICKEN BREAST SHAPED FILLET [CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT, SEASONING (CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, BROWN SUGAR, SALT, DEXTROSE, VINEGAR POWDER (MALTODEXTRIN, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, DRIED VINEGAR), GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, CHICKEN TYPE FLAVOR (HYDROLYZED CORN GLUTEN, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND COTTONSEED OIL, THIAMIN HYDROCHLORIDE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE), WATER, SODIUM PHOSPHATES].
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.