Pa
Pa appears in 31 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Pa appears in 31 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 31
- catalogued products
- #6,896
- usage rank of 247,206
- 24
- named brands represented
- 95%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for Pa - usage rank #6,896
- Usage rank
- #6,896
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 153 others that also appear in exactly 31 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 95%
- Mean relative depth 95% across 31 parsed labels, slot 15.2 on average. Pa tends to sit near the end of the captured list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Computed from parsed product ingredient lists (Open Food Facts). The ranking covers 247,206 ingredients that appear at least once. Neither usage rank nor label depth is a safety clearance.
What this page can and cannot answer
Use prevalence before concern
Only 3.2% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Pa spans 24 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Biscuits; classico traditional pizza sauce; Creamery Select Premium Ice Cream when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 99.5/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
24 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 16 of 21 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Pa
Products Containing Pa
16 busy labels from the 31 indexed products that list Pa:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Pa sits among other busy catalog rows (31 products, mean score 99.5/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Score-axis peers only, mean screening score among ingredients with ≥50 scored products, not a second count list.
Next steps from the Pa page
31 product rows plus any FDA/CSPI fields on Pa are the evidence base — drill into the listings that matter for your decision.
- Open the product sample for Pa and read how the term sits on real packages. Browse linked labels
- Move to a second ingredient page and compare registry fields plus catalog mass side by side. Browse ingredient records
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Questions readers ask about Pa
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Pa? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Pa, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#6,896 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Pa? ▼
Pa ranks in the top decile by product count (#6,896 of 247,206), appearing in 31 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Pa so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Pa appears in 31 products (#6,896 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Pa). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.