Russell Stover Sugar Free Mint Patties Covered In Dark Chocolate

Russell Stover Candies Inc. · Chocolate · barcode 00077260096920

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 chocolate show what's typical. See levels
Others3 other chocolate products have 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

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
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

Sucralose (E955)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA approved it as a sweetener. Source
EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E955. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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

Typical for chocolate

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

Lead: typically 4.05 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches FDA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).
One serving (3 pieces, 43 g, from the label):
8% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of an adult's daily limit
Cadmium: typically 18 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 840 g (30 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.9 kg (8.6 lb).
One serving (3 pieces, 43 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
1% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 3.1 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 5.98 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.8 kg (4 lb) a day; an adult at about 8.6 kg (19 lb).
One serving (3 pieces, 43 g, from the label):
2% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Mercury: usually below 1 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.93, highest 8.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 15.7, highest 17 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 20, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 0.57, highest 1.7 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, with nuts: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.63, highest 7.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 2.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Candy bar, chocolate, nougat, and nuts: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 2.52, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Candy bar, milk chocolate, plain: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 8.92, highest 15 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)

CONSIST OF DARK CHOCOLATE (MALTITOL, CHOCOLATE (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), COCOA BUTTER, MILK FAT (MILK), SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), SALT, VANILLIN (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), SUCRALOSE), PASTEL COATING (MALTITOL, FRACTIONATED PALM KERNEL OIL AND PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, SODIUM CASEINATE (MILK), MILK FAT, LACTIC ACID ESTERS OF MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES WITH CITRIC ACID (TO HELP PROTECT FLAVOR), SOY LECITHIN (AN EMULSIFIER), VANILLIN (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), NATURAL FLAVOR, SUCRALOSE), MALTITOL SYRUP, SORBITOL, AND PEPPERMINT OIL.

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

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