Fresh & Ready Foods Pastrami Reuben Onion Roll Sandwich, Pastrami Reuben Onion Roll

Fresh & Ready Foods LLC · Prepared Subs & Sandwiches · barcode 00682906040283

What stands out

From the label
The ingredients list Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) and Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue), which have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Details

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives2 ingredients have stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028; EU warning label. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of prepared subs & sandwiches show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-02-16). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

US (FDA): Allowed Source. Applies to all of them.
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 all of them.
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 all of them.
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 all of them.
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: 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 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.

Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)

EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source

Blue No. 1 (Brilliant Blue) (E133)

EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E133. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source

Typical for prepared subs & sandwiches

FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food, so these are the closest foods it does test. Treat them as a rough guide.

Cadmium: typically 18.6 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 780 g (28 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.6 kg (7.9 lb).
One serving (1 sandwich, 241 g, from the label):
31% of a toddler's daily limit
7% of an adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 5.31 ppb (FDA, 36 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Lead, Mercury: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.91, highest 6.7 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.6, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 2.4, highest 4.4 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.2, highest 5.3 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 3.87, highest 6 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.74, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, bologna: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, ham: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 4.03, highest 5.5 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Luncheon meat, turkey: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 7.83, highest 9 ppb (2018-2020)
Perchlorate in Bologna (beef/pork): found in 15 of 20 samples, average 112, highest 1,557 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Luncheon meat (ham): found in 18 of 20 samples, average 20.6, highest 56.4 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)

PASTRAMI BEEF FLAT ([COATED WITH: SPICES, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, NATURAL SMOKE FLAVOR.] BEEF, WATER, POTASSIUM LACTATE, ISOLATED SOY PROTEIN [CONTAINS SOY LECITHIN], SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SUGAR SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, FLAVORING.), ONION ROLL (ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WITH NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE, ,MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN AND FOLIC ACID), WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST, SUGAR, SALT, ENZYME, CALCIUM, CALCIUM PROPIONATE (AS A MOLD INHIBITOR), STRENGTHENER {ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE. RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID).ENZYMES.}, DOUGH CONDITIONER{ENRICHED WHEAT FLOUR( WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), ASCORBIC ACID, WHEAT GLUTEN, ENZYMES.), TOPPING WITH FULLY BAKED DRY ONION), PICKLE DILL CHIPS (PICKLES, WATER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, SALT, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF THE FOLLOWING: CALCIUM CHLORIDE, ALUM, NATURAL FLAVORS, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), POLYSORBATE 80, FD AND C YELLOW #5 AND BLUE #1.), CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO (COLOR)), COLESLAW (CABBAGE, CARROTS, RED CABBAGE, THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING (SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, CORN SYRUP, VINEGAR, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, PICKLES, TOMATO PASTE, EGG YOLK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, SPICE, SODIUM BENZOATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (PRESERVATIVES), PROPYLENE GLYCOL ALGINATE. XANTHAN GUM, GARLIC, BELL PEPPER. ONION", NATURAL FLAVOR, OLEORESIN TURMERIC. *DRIED)), YELLOW MUSTARD (DISTILLED VINEGAR, WATER, #1 GRADE MUSTARD SEED, SALT, TURMERIC, PAPRIKA, SPICE, NATURAL FLAVOR AND GARLIC POWDER)

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-02-16. Labels change; check the package.

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