Canned Seafood
1,238 products.
Typical levels
What FDA found when it bought and tested this kind of food around the US.
- Cadmium: typically 2.1 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 3.8 kg (8.4 lb) a day; an adult at about 18 kg (40 lb).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):3% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of a adult's daily limit
- Mercury: typically 38.2 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 36 g (1.3 oz) a day; an adult at about 170 g (6 oz).One serving (100 g (3½ oz)):▲ 2.8× a toddler's daily limit● 60% of a adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 336 ppb (FDA, 30 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead, Perchlorate: usually below 4 ppb, the lab's limit, in FDA's samples.
FDA samples behind these numbers
- Lead in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 0 of 27, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 0 of 3, all below 4 ppb (2018-2020)
- Cadmium in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 13 of 27, average 1.6, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 25.3, highest 34 ppb (2018-2020)
- Mercury in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 20.8, highest 46 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 230, highest 250 ppb (2018-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27, average 376, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Tuna, canned in water, drained solids: found in 3 of 3, average 1,200, highest 1,400 ppb (2018-2020)
- Perchlorate in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 4 of 20, average 0.88, highest 12.1 ppb (2008-2012)
- Perchlorate in Tuna, canned in water, drained: found in 8 of 20, average 3.51, highest 29 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.
Products
None of these has published lab results yet.
- Wild Alaskan Pink Salmon Trader Joe's · Canned Seafood
- Pacific Seafood, Searock, Fresh Pacific Oysters Pacific Seafood · Canned Seafood
- Chicken Of The Sea, Medium Deveined Shrimp Chicken Of The Sea · Canned Seafood
- Pink Salmon, Pink Salmon Chicken Of The Sea · Canned Seafood
- Lascco, Sour Cream Herring Lascco · Canned Seafood
- Skinless & Boneless Chunk Style Wild Pink Salmon Blue Harbor Fish Co. · Canned Seafood
- Premium Ocean Wild Caught Chopped Clams, Premium Ocean Starkist · Canned Seafood
- Chopped Fancy Tender Sea Clams Starkist · Canned Seafood