Prepared Pasta & Pizza Sauces · barcode 00879147009043
Bolognese Pasta Sauce
Kowalski's Markets · Kowalski Companies Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
- Additives1 ingredient is banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of prepared pasta & pizza sauces show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2022-12-22). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
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
- 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
- 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
Typical for prepared pasta & pizza sauces
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 23 ppb (FDA, 6 samples, 2018-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 670 g (24 oz) a day; an adult at about 3.1 kg (6.8 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):15% of a toddler's daily limit3% of a 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 Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Lead in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 3 of 3, average 20.7, highest 25 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 3 of 3, average 24.3, highest 26 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 1 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, canned: found in 2 of 3, average 3.1, highest 5.7 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Sauce, tomato, pasta: found in 0 of 3, all below 3 ppb (2018-2020)
"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)
TOMATO SAUCE (VINE-RIPENED FRESH TOMATOES, SALT, ONION POWDER, GARLIC POWDER, NATURAL FLAVORINGS AND CITRIC ACID), CRUSHED TOMATOES (VINE-RIPENED FRESH TOMATOES, SALT AND NATURALLY DERIVED CITRIC ACID), GROUND BEEF, GROUND PORK, WHOLE MILK (MILK, VITAMIN D3 ADDED), RED WINE (CONTAINS SULFITES), ONIONS, CELERY, CARROTS, BACON PANCETTA BACON (PORK BELLY, SALT, SUGAR, SPICES, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE, GARLIC), BUTTER (PASTEURIZED CREAM, SALT), GARLIC, BROWN SUGAR, SALT, BEEF BASE (COOKED BEEF [BEEF STOCK, BEEF MEAT, BEAF FAT], HYDROLYZED VEGETABLE MIX [HYDROLYZED CORN AND YEAST PROTEIN, HYDROLYZED WHEAT GLUTEN WITH PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL], SALT, SUGAR, NATURAL FLAVOR, CARAMEL COLOR, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, TORULA YEAST, AUTOLYZED YEAST EXTRACT, ONION POWDER, DISODIUM INOSINATE, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, MALTODEXTRIN, SOY LECITHIN), SPICES.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2022-12-22. Labels change; check the package.