Archer Farms Feta & Roasted Red Pepper Dip, Feta & Roasted Red Pepper
Target Stores · Dips & Salsa · barcode 00085239690482
What stands out
- Recall
2 FDA recalls name this barcode (newest 2013, closed): possible Listeria. Details
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) and Red No. 40 (Allura Red), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls2 FDA recalls name this barcode (newest 2013, closed). Details
- Additives3 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA; EU warning label. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of dips & salsa show what's typical. See levels
FDA recalls
- 2013-12-18 · Class I · Terminated Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling various ready-to-eat salads, slaw, and dip products sold under various brands and codes because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.: Archer Farms Feta & Roasted Red Pepper Dip, UPC 0 85239 69048 2, 11 oz, Product Code 69048 Recall F-0441-2014 details
- 2013-12-11 · Class I · Terminated Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling various ready-to-eat salads, slaw, and dip products sold under various brands and codes because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.: Archer Farms Feta & Roasted Red Pepper Dip, Product Code 0 85239 69048 2, 6/11 oz Recall F-0663-2014 details
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-10-26). 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.
- US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- EU: Allowed with warning label (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- West Virginia: Banned from 2028-01-01 Food containing it is treated as adulterated in West Virginia from January 1, 2028. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (HB 2354 (2025)) Source. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
- 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. Applies to Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow), Red No. 40 (Allura Red).
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
Yellow No. 6 (Sunset Yellow) (E110)
Only the shared rules above.
Red No. 40 (Allura Red) (E129)
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for dips & salsa
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 19 ppb (FDA, 3 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 760 g (27 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).One serving (2 tbsp, 25 g, from the label):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 20 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 2.1 kg (4.6 lb) a day; an adult at about 9.9 kg (22 lb).One serving (2 tbsp, 25 g, from the label):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an 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 Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 19.7, highest 21 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salsa, tomato, bottled: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Tomato salsa, bottled: found in 19 of 20 samples, average 4.93, highest 19 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)
CREAM CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK AND CREAM, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, CAROB BEAN GUM, XANTHAN GUM, GUAR GUM), SOUR CREAM (MILK, CREAM, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, GELATIN, GUAR GUM, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, LACTIC ACID, CITRIC ACID, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM SORBATE [PRESERVATIVE]), MAYONNAISE (SOYBEAN OIL, WHOLE EGGS, EGG YOLKS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, SALT, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, MUSTARD FLOUR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, NATURAL FLAVOR, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA [TO PROTECT QUALITY]), FETA CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, POTATO STARCH [ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING]), RED PEPPERS (SWEET BELL PEPPERS, WATER, CITRIC ACID), NATURAL ROASTED RED PEPPER FLAVOR (MALTODEXTRIN, SALT, DEXTROSE, SUGAR, CHEESE POWDER [WHEY, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, ENZYMES], NONFAT DRY MILK, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, AUTOLYZED YEAST FLAVORINGS, TOMATO POWDER, BELL PEPPERS, CITRIC ACID, TORULA YEAST, YELLOW 6, TURMERIC, RED 40), MODIFIED CORN STARCH, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVES), PAPRIKA, GARLIC POWDER, SALT, ONION POWDER.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-10-26. Labels change; check the package.