To: Seafood HACCP Community
Fr: Pamela Tom, UC Sea Grant Extension Program
On January 18, 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration updated two
mercury levels in fish and shellfish web documents. This information
supersedes the data which was originally posted on March 19, 2004.
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Mercury Levels in Commercial Fish and Shellfish January 2006
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/sea-mehg.html
This is a 6-page document with three tables:
- Table 1. Fish and Shellfish with Highest Levels of Mercury (Mackerel,
King; shark, swordfish, and tilefish)
- Table 2. Fish and Shellfish with Lower Levels of Mercury (33 species
listed)
- Table 3. Mercury Levels of Other Fish and Shellfish (27 species listed)
The data sources include: FDA 1990-2004, "National Marine Fisheries
Service Survey of Trace Elements in the Fishery Resource" Report 1978,
"The Occurrence of Mercury in the Fishery Resources of the Gulf of Mexico"
Report 2000.
Note: In the tables, mercury was measured as Total Mercury except for
species (which are identified by "*") "when only Methylmercury was
analyzed."
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Mercury in Fish: FDA Monitoring Program (1990-2004) January 2006
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/seamehg2.html
This document is 118 pages in length. It identifies sample (species),
analyte measured (total mercury or methylmercury), provides the
concentration in PPM, and gives the year of the anlaysis.
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