Bacon, Sausages & Ribs · barcode 00088374704656

Beef Meatballs With Barbecue Sauce

Great American

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 bacon, sausages & ribs show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2019-04-01). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

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
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

Bleached flour

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. 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
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

Typical for bacon, sausages & ribs

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

Perchlorate: typically 3.5 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 950 g (34 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
11% of a toddler's daily limit
2% of a adult's daily limit
Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 4 of 27, average 0.63, highest 4.7 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 6 of 27, average 1, highest 4.9 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 14 of 27, average 1.62, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 2 of 27, average 0.09, highest 1.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 5 of 27, average 0.61, highest 3.8 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pork sausage (link/patty), pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Pork bacon, oven-cooked: found in 13 of 20, average 19, highest 139 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Pork sausage (link/patty), oven-cooked: found in 7 of 20, average 3.15, highest 41 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)

BEEF, WATER, ONIONS, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (SOY FLOUR, CARAMEL COLOR), BREADCRUMBS (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, YEAST, AND CANOLA OIL), SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, SEASONING (SALT, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, CORN STARCH, CHICKEN FAT, SUGAR, DEHYDRATED ONION, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, TURMERIC, SPICES, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, SPICE EXTRACTIVES), SEASONING (DEXTROSE, SALT, SPICES, DEHYDRATED ONION, SPICE EXTRACTIVES), EGG WHITES, GROUND MUSTARD, BARBEQUE SAUCE: MOLASSES, WATER, TOMATO PASTE, SUGAR, WHITE VINEGAR, PREPARED MUSTARD (WATER, WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR, MUSTARD SEED, SALT, SUGAR, SOYBEAN OIL, TURMERIC AND ANNATTO, GARLIC, SPICES, XANTHAN GUM, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA [PROTECTS FLAVOR] NATURAL FLAVOR), CIDER VINEGAR, SOYBEAN OR CANOLA OIL, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SPICES, SALT, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE) BEEF BASE (ROASTED BEEF AND CONCENTRATED BEEF STOCK, SALT, HYDROLYZED PROTEIN [CORN AND WHEAT GLUTEN, SOY, WHEAT CORN], PROTEINS, YEAST EXTRACT, MALTODEXTRIN, PALM OIL, SUGAR, ONION POWDER, CARAMEL COLOR, CORN OIL, POTATO STARCH, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OIL, DISODIUM INOSINATE/DISODIUM GUANYLATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NATURAL FLAVORS) LIQUID SMOKE FLAVORS.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2019-04-01. Labels change; check the package.

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