Meijer Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit Hearty Breakfast Sandwiches, Bacon Egg & Cheese
Meijer, Inc. · Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches, Biscuits & Meals · barcode 00713733494939
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals 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.
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.
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
Bleached flour
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source
Typical for frozen breakfast sandwiches, biscuits & meals
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 15.9 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 940 g (33 oz) a day; an adult at about 4.4 kg (9.7 lb).One serving (1 sandwich, 102 g, from the label):11% of a toddler's daily limit2% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.63 ppb (FDA, 84 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 Biscuits, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.42, highest 6.8 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 3 of 27 samples, average 0.79, highest 9.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 19.4, highest 26 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 28.6, highest 39 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 3 of 3 samples, average 13.3, highest 16 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1.1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.04, highest 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 0 of 3 samples, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Biscuits, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 6.9, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Eggs, hard-boiled: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 1 of 3 samples, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Eggs, boiled: found in 13 of 20 samples, average 1.09, highest 2 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in English muffin, plain, toasted: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 5.36, highest 34.6 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Pancakes, frozen, heated: found in 16 of 20 samples, average 2.81, highest 6 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)
BUTTERMILK BISCUIT (ENRICHED BLEACHED FLOUR [ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN], WATER, SHORTENING [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTONSEED OIL, PALM OIL, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, BETA-CAROTENE, TBHQ AND CITRIC ACID], DEXTROSE, BUTTERMILK POWDER, BAKING SODA, SODIUM ACID PYROPHOSPHATE, SALT, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SORBIC ACID AND/OR POTASSIUM SORBATE, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM); EGG PATTY (WHOLE EGGS, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, WHEY SOLIDS, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NONFAT DRY MILK, SALT, XANTHAN GUM, CITRIC ACID, AND ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOR [PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOY OIL AND COTTON SEED OILS, MEDIUM CHAIN TRIGLYCERIDES, FLAVORS]); PASTEURIZED PROCESS AMERICAN CHEESE (AMERICAN CHEESES [MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES], WATER, CREAM, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SORBIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], LACTIC ACID, ACETIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL COLOR, LECITHIN (SOY); BACON ROUND (CURED WITH WATER, SALT, HICKORY SMOKE FLAVORING, SUGAR, DEXTROSE, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-09-14. Labels change; check the package.