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Relish Labs LLC · Other Deli · barcode 00840134307725

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Titanium dioxide, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: Not allowed in the EU since 2022. 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 allowed in the EU since 2022. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of other deli 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.

Titanium dioxide (E171)

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a color additive, up to 1% of the food's weight. Source
  • EU: Removed from approved list from 2022-08-07 Removed as a food additive in 2022; food made under the old rules could be sold until August 7, 2022. (Regulation (EU) 2022/63) 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

Typical for other deli

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

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • 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)
  • Lead in Salami, dry/hard: found in 1 of 27 samples, average 0.18, highest 4.9 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)
  • Cadmium in Salami, dry/hard: found in 10 of 27 samples, average 0.54, highest 2.4 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)
  • Mercury in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 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)
  • Arsenic (total) in Salami, dry/hard: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
  • 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)

STEAK STRIPS, PEPPER AND ONION MIX (SLICED RED PEPPER, SLICED GREEN PEPPER, SLICED RED ONION), SMALL FLOUR TORTILLAS (ENRICHED FLOUR WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, PALM OIL, SUGAR, SALT, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SODIUM ALUMINUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE [A PRESERVATIVE], FUMARIC ACID, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, CALCIUM PROPIONATE [A PRESERVATIVE], ENZYME, DOUGH CONDITIONER [SODIUM METABISULFITE]), SLAW MIX (SHREDDED GREEN CABBAGE, SHREDDED RED CABBAGE, MATCHSTICK CARROTS), LIME, FIRE-ROASTED DICED HATCH GREEN CHILE PEPPERS (FIRE ROASTED HATCH CHILES, SALT, CITRIC ACID [TO ACIDIFY]), QUESO FRESCO CRUMBLES (PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES, TITANIUM DIOXIDE, ANTI-CAKING AGENT [POTATO STARCH, CORNSTARCH, CELLULOSE, NATAMYCIN (AN ALL NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR)]), SOUR CREAM (GRADE A CULTURED CREAM), CRISPY JALAPENOS (JALAPENO PEPPERS, ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], SUNFLOWER, SAFFLOWER AND/OR CANOLA OIL, SALT), CILANTRO.

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

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