Frozen Fish & Seafood · barcode 00885050740348

Crispy Oven-ready Tempura Shrimp

Legal Sea Foods · Five M Group

Lab testsNo lab has published results for this exact product.
RecallsNo FDA recall lists this barcode.
Additives1 ingredient has a label or school-food rule in some states. Which
TypicalFDA's tests of frozen fish & seafood show what's typical. See levels

Additives with restrictions somewhere

From the ingredient list on file (label data dated 2023-07-13). Recipes change, so check the package you have.

Potassium aluminum sulfate (E522)

US (FDA): Allowed FDA lists it as generally recognized as safe. Source
EU: Allowed On the EU's list of approved additives as E522. For limited uses. (Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008) 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 frozen fish & seafood

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

Mercury: typically 28.1 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 48 g (1.7 oz) a day; an adult at about 220 g (7.8 oz).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
▲ 2.1× a toddler's daily limit
45% of a adult's daily limit
Arsenic (total): typically 1,585 ppb (FDA, 84 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
Perchlorate: typically 10 ppb (FDA, 40 samples, 2008-2012). A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 500 g (18 oz) a day; an adult at about 2.3 kg (5.1 lb).
One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):
20% of a toddler's daily limit
4% of a adult's daily limit
Lead, Cadmium: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.

FDA samples behind these numbers

Lead in Cod, baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 1 of 3, average 1.4, highest 4.2 ppb (2018-2020)
Lead in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 14 of 27, average 4.87, highest 28 ppb (2017-2020)
Lead in Tilapia, baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Cod, baked: found in 16 of 27, average 2.19, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 12, highest 13 ppb (2018-2020)
Cadmium in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 18 of 27, average 5.69, highest 36 ppb (2017-2020)
Cadmium in Tilapia, baked: found in 1 of 27, average 0.06, highest 1.5 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 83.4, highest 140 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 7.13, highest 9.8 ppb (2018-2020)
Mercury in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27, average 7.19, highest 17 ppb (2017-2020)
Mercury in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 6.68, highest 20 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 4,915, highest 10,900 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 3 of 3, average 757, highest 810 ppb (2018-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Shrimp, pre-cooked, shells removed, no tails: found in 27 of 27, average 358, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
Arsenic (total) in Tilapia, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 117, highest 290 ppb (2017-2020)
Perchlorate in Fish sticks or patty, frozen, oven-cooked: found in 18 of 20, average 6.03, highest 51 ppb (2008-2012)
Perchlorate in Shrimp, boiled: found in 18 of 20, average 36, highest 147 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)

SHRIMP, SALT, WATER, WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED STARCH (STARCH ACETATE [CASSAVA], DISTARCH PHOSPHATE[CASSAVA]), CORN STARCH, SOYBEAN PROTEIN, BAKING POWDER(SODIUM BICARBONATE, BURNT ALUMINUM POTASSIUM SULFATE, DISODIUM DIHYDROGEN PYROPHOSPHATE, FUMARIC ACID, BURNT ALUMINUM AMMONIUM SULFATE, CORN STARCH, SOY PROTEIN), SUGAR, SPICE(GARLIC POWDER), PAPRIKA, VEGETABLE OIL (PERILLA, SAFFLOWER), EMULSIFIER (GLYCERIN FATTY ACID ESTER [PALM, COCONUT], MIX TOCOPHEROLS[SOYBEAN, RICE])

From USDA FoodData Central, label dated 2023-07-13. Labels change; check the package.

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