Luigi & Raffaele's Sausage & Pepperoni Pizza, Sausage & Pepperoni
Turtle Island Coffee Company · Pizza · barcode 00852929002050
What stands out
- From the label
The ingredients list BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Details
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: West Virginia ban from 2028. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of pizza show what's typical. See levels
- Others3 other pizza products have lab results. Compare them
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-06-17). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
Rules that apply to more than one of these
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source. Applies to all of them.
- EU: Allowed (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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.
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)
- 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
BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) (E321)
Only the shared rules above.
Typical for pizza
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 20 ppb (FDA, 27 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 730 g (26 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.4 kg (7.5 lb).One serving (0.333 pizza, 153 g, from the label):21% of a toddler's daily limit5% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 3.7 ppb (FDA, 27 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 Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 2 of 27 samples, average 0.32, highest 4.6 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.6, highest 25 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Pizza, cheese, fast-food: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 3.74, highest 6 ppb (2017-2020)
"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)
CRUST (WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, YEAST, SUGAR, AND SALT). SAUCE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE, ONION, SOYBEAN OIL, PARSLEY FLAKES, OREGANO, BASIL, BAY LEAVES, SUGAR, SALT, GARLIC, BLACK PEPPER). PIZZA CHEESE (CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK AND PART SKIM MILK, WATER, SALT, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILK FAT, LACTIC ACID, CONTAINING LESS THAN 0.5% OF ENZYMES, SMOKE FLAVOR). SAUSAGE (GROUND PORK, FENNEL SEED, SALT, BLACK PEPPER, AND GARLIC). PEPPERONI (PORK AND BEEF, SALT CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF WATER, DEXTROSE, NATURAL SPICES, OLEORESIN OF PAPRIKA, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM NITRITE, BHA, BHT, CITRIC ACID). ROMANO CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART SKIM COWS MILK, CHEESE CULTURES, SALT, AND ENZYMES.) OREGAN.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-06-17. Labels change; check the package.