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Zatarain's Shrimp Scampi With Pasta Shrimp And Pasta In A Creamy Lemon Butter Sauce, Shrimp Scampi With Pasta

Zatarain's Inc. · Frozen Dinners & Entrees · barcode 00071429010116

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 frozen dinners & entrees show what's typical. See levels

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

  • 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 frozen dinners & entrees

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.2, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.63, highest 7.5 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 6.33, highest 7.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 11.1, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Chili con carne with beans, canned: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from boxed mix: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Chicken potpie, frozen, heated: found in 14 of 20 samples, average 1.97, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Chili con carne w/ beans, canned: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 2.39, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Macaroni and cheese, prepared from box mix: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 3.5, highest 5 ppb (2008-2012)

"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)

WATER, COOKED ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WATER, DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA [ENRICHED WITH NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID]), SHRIMP (WITH SALT, SODIUM TRIPOLYPHOSPHATE), BUTTER FLAVOR BLEND (MALTODEXTRIN [FROM CORN], BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], NONFAT DRY MILK, BUTTERMILK, SALT, SOUR CREAM [CULTURED CREAM, NONFAT DRY MILK, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, COLOR [EXTRACTIVES OF ANNATTO AND TURMERIC]), NONFAT MILK SOLIDS (NONFAT MILK, WHEY SOLIDS [LACTOSE], VITAMIN A AND D3), UNSALTED BUTTER (CREAM, NATURAL FLAVOR), ROASTED GARLIC BASE (ROASTED GARLIC, SALT, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, NATURAL FLAVORINGS, CORNSTARCH, CANOLA OIL, SESAME OIL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), GREEN ONIONS, CORN MALTODEXTRIN, SHRIMP BASE (COOKED SHRIMP, SALT, UNSALTED BUTTER [CREAM, FLAVORINGS], POTATO FLOUR, FLAVORING, DRY WHEY, PAPRIKA), CHEESE FLAVOR (A DEHYDRATED BLEND OF PARMESAN CHEESE [PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], WHEY, BUTTERMILK SOLIDS, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT), LEMON JUICE POWDER (CORN SYRUP, LEMON JUICE, LEMON OIL), CANOLA OIL, GRANULATED GARLIC, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE POWDER (CORN MALTODEXTRIN, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE [DISTILLED VINEGAR, MOLASSES, CORN SYRUP, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, GARLIC POWDER, SUGAR, SPICES, TAMARIND, NATURAL FLAVOR, SULFITING AGENTS]), SPICES, YEAST EXTRACT, PAPRIKA, XANTHAN GUM, NON-DAIRY CREAMER (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, SODIUM CASEINATE [A MILK DERIVATIVE], DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MONO AND DIGLY-CERIDES, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, SILICON DIOXIDE), CITRIC ACID, DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE (FLAVOR ENHANCERS).

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

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