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King's Command Food, Inc. · Beef - Prepared/Processed · barcode 10088374048054

What stands out

  • From the label

    The ingredients list Partially hydrogenated oils, which has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Details

  • Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
  • RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
  • Additives1 ingredient has stricter rules elsewhere. Strictest: No longer allowed by FDA. Which
  • TypicalFDA's tests of beef - prepared/processed show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2020-02-27). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Rules that apply to more than one of these

  • 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: 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.

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

Bleached flour

  • US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows bleached flour. Source

Typical for beef - prepared/processed

What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.

FDA samples behind these numbers
  • Lead in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Lead in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 7 of 22 samples, average 1.67, highest 7.1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Cadmium in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 20 of 22 samples, average 2.85, highest 4.8 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Mercury in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 0 of 22 samples, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, oven-roasted: found in 25 of 27 samples, average 5.56, highest 21 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Beef, ground, pan-cooked: found in 24 of 27 samples, average 4.06, highest 8.5 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Arsenic (total) in Frankfurter (all beef/beef and pork), boiled: found in 2 of 22 samples, average 0.33, highest 4.2 ppb (2017-2020)
  • Perchlorate in Beef steak, loin/sirloin, broiled: found in 2 of 20 samples, average 0.4, highest 6 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Beef, ground, regular, pan-cooked: found in 1 of 20 samples, average 0.05, highest 1 ppb (2008-2012)
  • Perchlorate in Frankfurter (beef/pork), boiled: found in 18 of 20 samples, average 11, highest 36 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)

BEEF, WATER, POTATOES, ONIONS, TEXTURED VEGETABLE PROTEIN (SOY FLOUR, CARAMEL COLOR), BREADCRUMBS (BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR, SUGAR, SALT, YEAST, CANOLA OIL), NONFAT DRY MILK, HYDROLYZED SOY PROTEIN, SALT, FLAVORING. SAUCE: WATER, MUSHROOMS, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, BEEF BASE (ROASTED BEEF AND CONCENTRATED BEEF STOCK, SALT, HYDROLYZED [CORN AND WHEAT GLUTEN, SOY, WHEAT AND CORN] PROTEINS, YEAST EXTRACT, MALTODEXTRIN, PALM OIL, SUGAR, ONION POWDER, CARAMEL COLOR, CORN OIL, POTATO STARCH, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OIL, DISODIUM INOSINATE/DISODIUM GUANYLATE, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, NATURAL FLAVORS), DICED ONION, SOUR CREAM (GRADE A PASTEURIZED CULTURED CREAM, SKIM MILK, MILK SOLIDS, GELATIN), SWEET MARSALA COOKING WINE, BUTTER, MOLASSES, HEAVY CREAM (PASTEURIZED HEAVY CREAM), WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE (DISTILLED VINEGAR, MOLASSES, CORN SYRUP, WATER, SALT, CARAMEL COLOR, SUGAR, SPICES, ANCHOVY PUREE, NATURAL FLAVOR (CONTAINS SOY) AND TAMARIND), GARLIC, SPICES.

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2020-02-27. Labels change; check the package.

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