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Louisa Mezzaluna Ravioli Italian Sausage And Four Cheeses

Louisa Food Products Inc · Pasta by Shape & Type · barcode 00077886301767

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 pasta by shape & type 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.

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 pasta by shape & type

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 Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 3.63, highest 6.6 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Lead in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 22.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 37.7, highest 44 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Cadmium in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 27.7, highest 32 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Mercury in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Pasta, whole wheat, cooked: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Noodles, egg, enriched, boiled: found in 3 of 20 samples, average 0.45, highest 7 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Spaghetti, enriched, boiled: found in 0 of 20 samples, all below 1 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)

ENRICHED EXTRA FANCY DURUM FLOUR AND SEMOLINA (DURUM WHEAT FLOUR, SEMOLINA, NIACIN, IRON [FERROUS SULFATE], THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, COOKED ITALIAN SAUSAGE (PORK, SUGAR, SALT, SPICES, GRANULATED ONION, GRANULATED GARLIC), PASTEURIZED PROCESS AMERICAN CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, WATER, CREAM, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], ENZYMES, CELLULOSE POWDER [ANTI-CAKING]), COOKED TOMATOES (TOMATOES [FRESH TOMATOES, TOMATO PUREE, CALCIUM CHLORIDE, CITRIC ACID], OLIVE OIL, WATER, COOKED ONIONS, COOKED CARROTS, BUTTER [CREAM, SALT], SUGAR, COOKED GARLIC, SPICES), WHOLE EGGS, CONCENTRATED PORK BROTH (PORK, SUGAR, SALT, SPICES, GRANULATED ONION, GRANULATED GARLIC), RICOTTA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, PASTEURIZED WHEY, PASTEURIZED CREAM, VINEGAR, STABILIZERS [XANTHAN GUM, LOCUST BEAN GUM, GUAR GUM]), LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, ENZYMES), BREAD CRUMBS (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, YEAST, SUGAR, SALT), CROUTONS (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUGAR, SALT, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST), FOOD STARCH-MODIFIED, SALT, SPICES, GRANULATED GARLIC, TOMATO PASTE, PAPRIKA, BETA CAROTENE, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY.

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

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