Bridgford Heat and Serve Honey Wheat Rolls, 1 oz (Whole Grain), 6611
Bridgford Foods Corporation · Bread · barcode 10047500011287
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 bread show what's typical. See levels
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2025-07-24). Recipes change, so check the package you have.
BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) (E320)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows it as a preservative. Source
- EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E320. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) Source
- 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
- 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: 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
- 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 bread
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Cadmium: typically 27 ppb (FDA, 81 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 550 g (19 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.6 kg (5.7 lb).One serving (1 roll, 28 g, from the label):5% of a toddler's daily limit1% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 6.77 ppb (FDA, 81 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 Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 5 of 27 samples, average 0.91, highest 6.7 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 9 of 27 samples, average 2.28, highest 23 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 20 of 27 samples, average 3.88, highest 7.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 24.6, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 27.4, highest 37 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 29.9, highest 42 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white roll/bun (hamburger/hotdog): found in 27 of 27 samples, average 5.74, highest 9.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, white, enriched, pre-sliced: found in 26 of 27 samples, average 5.06, highest 9 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Bread, whole wheat, pre-sliced: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 10.3, highest 18 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Bread, white, enriched: found in 12 of 20 samples, average 2.55, highest 9 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Bread, whole wheat: found in 15 of 20 samples, average 2.7, highest 7 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)
WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, ENRICHED UNBLEACHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), WATER, CANE SUGAR, SHORTENING (PALM OIL, MONO & DIGLYCERIDES, POLYSORBATE 60), MILK POWDER (NONFAT DRY MILK, DRIED WHEY, SOY FLOUR, CALCIUM SULFATE), CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: HONEY, YEAST, SALT, WHEAT GLUTEN, SODIUM CASEINATE AND WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, BUTTER FLAVORED OIL (WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, XANTHAN GUM, SODIUM BENZOATE [PRESERVATIVE], CITRIC ACID [PRESERVATIVE], ANNATTO, BHA AND MIXED TOCOPHEROLS), DOUGH CONDITIONER (CALCIUM SULFATE, ASCORBIC ACID [VITAMIN C], CALCIUM PEROXIDE, ENZYMES AND AMMONIUM SULFATE).
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2025-07-24. Labels change; check the package.