Prepared Pasta & Pizza Sauces · barcode 00085239300718
Alfredo Pasta Sauce, Alfredo
Archer Farms · Target Stores
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of prepared pasta & pizza sauces show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-09-14). 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 prepared pasta & pizza sauces
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 23 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 670 g (24 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.1 kg (6.8 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):15% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a 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 Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 3 of 3, average 20.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 3 of 3, average 24.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 2 of 3, average 3.1, highest 5.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
"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)
WATER, CREAM, PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), WHEY, SOYBEAN OIL, BUTTER, ENZYME MODIFIED EGG PRODUCT (EGG YOLK, SALT, PHOSPHOLIPASE), NATURAL FLAVOR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF ROMANO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SALT, TAPIOCA MALTODEXTRIN, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, YEAST EXTRACT, SPICE, SODIUM HEXAMETAPHOSPHATE, XANTHAN GUM, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-09-14. Labels change; check the package.