Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage Gravy, Odom's Tennessee Pride, Sausage Gravy

ConAgra Foods Packaged Foods, LLC · Gravy Mix · barcode 00072290017310

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Titanium dioxide and BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), 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 gravy mix show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-03-19). 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.
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).
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).

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

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

BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)

Only the shared rules above.

Typical for gravy mix

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 1 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 21 kg (46 lb) a day; an adult at more than 100 kg.
One serving (3 tbsp, 36 g, from the label):
under 1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 1.9 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 6.2 kg (14 lb) a day; an adult at about 29 kg (64 lb).
One serving (3 tbsp, 36 g, from the label):
under 1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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 Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 0.7, highest 1.1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Brown gravy, canned or bottled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.69, 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)

GRAVY: WATER, ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OILS (COCONUT, PALM AND/OR PALM KERNEL), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CORN SYRUP, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: SODIUM CASEINATE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), ANNATTO, TURMERIC AND TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLORS), SPICES, WHEY, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BUTTER (CREAM, NONFAT MILK, SALT), SUGAR, MALTODEXTRIN, GUAR GUM. SAUSAGE: PORK, WATER, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SUGAR AND/OR DEXTROSE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, BHT AND/OR BHA, CITRIC ACID, PROPYL GALLATE.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-03-19. Labels change; check the package.

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