Is Wild Alaskan Salmon Mercury-Safe?
Recent evidence reaffirms that wild Alaskan Salmon rank among the purest, safest, fish in the sea by Craig Weatherby It’s easy for people to get confused and misled when it comes to mercury and fish. Their concerns are understandable and were reflected in a letter we received today, which we will answer here. First things first: our fish are exceptionally pure, by any standard. Our Tuna and Halibut are hand-selected for their youth and small size and are therefore unusually low in mercury compared with national brands. And all of our other offerings Sardines, Sablefish, Spot Prawns, Scallops, and King Crab are species inherently low in mercury, regardless of their size or age at time of harvest. But we continually get questions about mercury and wild Salmon, even though the U.S. EPA and FDA and most media reports accurately characterize wild Salmon as very low in mercury. For example, consider this statement from the Alaska Division of Public Health (SOA 2001): Fortunately, mercury lev
