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Schroeder Fat Free Cottage Cheese

Agropur Inc. Division Natrel USA · Cheese · barcode 00072340001177

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Details

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of cheese show what's typical. See levels
  • Others1 other cheese product has lab results. Compare them

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). 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.

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

Acetylated mono- and diglycerides (E472a)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows them. Source
  • EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E472a. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
  • 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

Typical for cheese

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Cheese, American, processed: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 2.1, highest 6.3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.8, highest 3.5 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.23, highest 2.9 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, American, processed: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, American, processed: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 8.2, highest 11 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, Swiss: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, cheddar (sharp/mild): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Cheese, mozzarella: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, American, processed: found in 20 of 20 samples, average 12, highest 49 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, Swiss, natural: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 5.14, highest 17 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Cheese, cheddar, natural (sharp/mild): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 7.05, highest 69 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)

GRADE A SKIM MILK, SALT, LESS THAN 2%: WATER, CITRIC ACID, LACTIC ACID, PHOSPHORIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORING, GUAR GUM, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, ACETYLATED MONOGLYCERIDES, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ALUMINOSILLICATE (ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING), TITANIUM DIOXIDE, POTASSIUM SORBATE, XANTHAN GUM, VITAMIN A, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CULTURES, ENZYMES.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-10-28. Labels change; check the package.

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