Foster Farms Take Out Crispy Tenders Chicken Breast Strip With Rib Meat Fritters And Tangy Buttermilk Ranch Dipping Sauce

Foster Poultry Farms · Frozen Appetizers & Hors D'oeuvres · barcode 00075278997291

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 frozen appetizers & hors d'oeuvres show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-10-28). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

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
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

Typical for frozen appetizers & hors d'oeuvres

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 12.7 ppb (FDA, 57 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 5.3 kg (12 lb).
One serving (3 oz, 84 g, from the label):
7% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 44.4 ppb (FDA, 57 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 Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.16, highest 4.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.7, highest 8.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 12, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.13, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 4 of 27 samples, average 0.56, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 757, highest 810 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Chicken nuggets, fast-food: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 3.42, highest 12.5 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 6.03, highest 51 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)

CHICKEN BREAST WITH RIB MEAT AND/OR CHICKEN TENDERLOINS, WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, CRACKER MEAL (WHEAT FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF SALT, FOOD STARCH, NATURAL FLAVORS, SPICES, DRIED WHEY, LEAVENING (CREAM OF TARTAR, SODIUM BICARBONATE), TORULA YEAST, EXTRACTIVES OF PAPRIKA, SPICE EXTRACTIVES. BREADING SET IN VEGETABLE OIL. TANGY BUTTERMILK RANCH SAUCE INGREDIENTS: WATER, REFINED SOYBEAN OIL, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, SALTED EGG YOLKS, SALT, DISTILLED VINEGAR, DILL PICKLE RELISH (CUCUMBERS, GUAR GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, CALCIUM CHLORIDE), BUTTERMILK FLAVOR (SWEET CREAM BUTTERMILK POWDER, NATURAL BUTTER FLAVOR, MALTODEXTRIN, WHOLE MILK POWDER, CULTURED BUTTERMILK, CITRIC ACID), TOMATO CONCENTRATE, SOUR CREAM FLAVOR (SOUR CREAM SOLIDS, WHEY, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVORS), ARABIC GUM, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, SPICES, XANTHAN GUM, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, BUTTERMILK POWDER (SKIM MILK, CULTURES), DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, YEAST EXTRACT, LACTIC ACID POWDER, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ACID SULFATE, GREEN ONION POWDER AND OLEORESIN TURMERIC.

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

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