Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt · barcode 00860864000307
Power Play Fudge Ice Cream
Power Play Fudge · Gifford's Dairy Inc.
- Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
- Recalls1 FDA recall name this barcode. Details
- Additives2 ingredients are banned or unapproved somewhere. Which
- TypicalFDA's tests of ice cream & frozen yogurt show what's typical. See levels
- Others3 other ice cream & frozen yogurt products have lab results. Compare them
FDA recalls
- 2026-08-26 · Class II · Ongoing Potential foreign object contamination: rubber piecesGifford's Dairy, Inc.: Gifford's HomeMaine ice cream brand POWER PLAY FUDGE; ONE QUART (946 mL); UPC: 8 60864 00030 7 FDA record H-1245-2026
Additives with restrictions somewhere
From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2021-07-29). 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
Yellow No. 5 (tartrazine) (E102)
- US (FDA): Allowed FDA allows Yellow No. 5 as a certified color additive. Source
- EU: Allowed with warning label Allowed as E102, but foods containing it must say it "may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children." (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008, Annex V) Source
- California: Banned in school meals from 2027-12-31 Banned in food and drinks offered in California public schools from December 31, 2027. (AB 2316 (2024)) 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
- West Virginia: Banned in school meals from 2025-08-01 Banned in West Virginia school meals since August 1, 2025. (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 ice cream & frozen yogurt
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food across the US. These are not tests of this product.
- Perchlorate: typically 7 ppb (FDA, 19 samples, 2008-2012).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) a day; an adult at about 7.2 kg (16 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):6% of a toddler's daily limit1% of a adult's daily limit
- Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic (total): usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 18 of 27, average 3.96, highest 10 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26, average 0.15, highest 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 27 of 27, average 7.27, highest 15 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 9 of 27, average 0.45, highest 2.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 0 of 26, all below 1 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, chocolate: found in 4 of 27, average 0.49, highest 3.4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Ice cream, vanilla: found in 0 of 27, all below 3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Yogurt, frozen, vanilla: found in 1 of 26, average 0.13, highest 3.3 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Ice cream, regular, vanilla: found in 19 of 19, average 6.81, highest 12 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)
CREAM, SUGAR, MILK FUDGE RIPPLE (CORN SYRUP, NONFAT MILK, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL (COCONUT, SOYBEAN), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), SALT, XANTHAN GUM, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), CORN SYRUP, BROKEN COOKIES (SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, VEGETABLE SHORTENING (PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN AND/OR COTTON SEED OIL), COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), DEGERMINATED YELLOW CORN FLOUR, INVERT SUGAR, CORN STARCH, SALT, VANILLA, NONFAT MILK), FUDGE FILLED PUCKS (SUGAR, COCONUT OIL, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), PEANUT OIL, NONFAT MILK, WHOLE MILK, WHEY, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVORS), NONFAT DRIED MILK, WHEY, DEXTROSE, SOY LECITHIN, GUAR GUM, XANTHAN GUM, CARRAGEENAN, YELLOW 5.
From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2021-07-29. Labels change; check the package.