18Th Street Select Garden Lettuce, Croutons, Carrots, Cherry Tomatoes & Red Onions Salad, Garden

18th Street Deli Inc. · Pickles, Olives, Peppers & Relishes · barcode 00657815041034

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Azodicarbonamide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not approved in the EU. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of pickles, olives, peppers & relishes show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-06-17). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Azodicarbonamide

US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it in flour and dough. Source
EU: Not authorised Not on the EU's list of approved food additives (checked against the version in force on 18 August 2026). (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex II) 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: 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
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 pickles, olives, peppers & relishes

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

Cadmium: typically 0.55 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 27 kg (60 lb) a day; an adult at more than 100 kg.
One serving (227 grm, 227 g, from the label):
under 1% of a toddler's daily limit
under 1% of an adult's daily limit
Perchlorate: typically 1.03 ppb (FDA, 39 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 5 kg (11 lb) a day; an adult at about 23 kg (51 lb).
One serving (227 grm, 227 g, from the label):
5% of a toddler's daily limit
under 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 Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 2 of 3 samples, average 4.6, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 1.13, highest 1.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Olives, black, pitted: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Olives, black, pitted: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.03, highest 3.1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Pickles, dill, cucumber: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Black olives: found in 4 of 19 samples, average 0.95, highest 8 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Dill cucumber pickles: found in 17 of 20 samples, average 3.19, highest 13 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)

SALAD MIX: LETTUCE, CARROTS, CABBAGE; CHERRY TOMATOES; CARROTS; RED ONIONS; CROUTONS: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CANOLA OIL, WHEY, YEAST, SALT, 2% OR LESS OF HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WHEAT GLUTEN, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE), CALCIUM PEROXIDE, CALCIUM SULFATE, ASCORBIC ACID, AZODICARBONAMIDE, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, SUGAR, SPICES, DEHYDRATED PARSLEY, ONION POWDER, PAPRIKA, TURMERIC, EXTRACTIVE OF PAPRIKA, SPICE EXTRACTIVE, TBHQ (TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS).

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-06-17. Labels change; check the package.

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