Dirty Sue Blue Cheese With Cracked Black Pepper Stuffed Olives, Blue Cheese
Teacher's Treasures, Inc. · Pickles, Olives, Peppers & Relishes · barcode 00851302002519
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 pickles, olives, peppers & relishes show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-05-23). 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 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 (15 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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 (15 g, from the label):under 1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 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)
GREEN OLIVES WATER, BLUE CHEESE PASTEURIZED CULTURED MILK, WATER, CREAM, WHEY, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, TITANIUM DIOXIDE (COLOR), GUAR GUM, ENZYNES), SALT, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM BENZOATE (PRESERVATIVE), SPICES.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-05-23. Labels change; check the package.