Smoked fish
9 products.
Typical levels
FDA doesn't test this exact kind of food; these are the closest foods it does test.
- Cadmium: typically 0.6 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 7.9 kg (17 lb) a day; an adult at about 37 kg (82 lb).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):1% of a toddler's daily limitunder 1% of an adult's daily limit
- Mercury: typically 47 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020).
A toddler reaches EPA's daily limit at about 29 g (1 oz) a day; an adult at about 130 g (4.6 oz).One serving (100 g, a standard portion):▲ 3.5× a toddler's daily limit● 74% of an adult's daily limit
- Arsenic (total): typically 2,370 ppb (FDA, 54 samples, 2017-2020). No US agency limit we can cite.
- Lead: 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 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Lead in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 0 of 27 samples, all below 4 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Cod, baked: found in 16 of 27 samples, average 2.19, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Cadmium in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 13 of 27 samples, average 1.6, highest 11 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 83.4, highest 140 ppb (2017-2020)
- Mercury in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 20.8, highest 46 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Cod, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 4,915, highest 10,900 ppb (2017-2020)
- Arsenic (total) in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 27 of 27 samples, average 376, highest 1,400 ppb (2017-2020)
- Perchlorate in Salmon, steaks/fillets, baked: found in 4 of 20 samples, average 0.88, highest 12.1 ppb (2008-2012)
Left out of the summary above: Perchlorate. FDA measured it in only some of these foods, so the result describes those foods, not the whole kind.
"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.
- Moore Wilson's Akaroa Hot Smoked Salmon Portion 0.204kg Smoked fish
- Neptune Scottish Boned Kipper Traditionally Smoked 250g Smoked fish
- KHO CA CO'M Dried Anchovy 75g Smoked fish
- Asian Boy Dried Anchovies Headless 75g Smoked fish
- Regal Marlborough King Salmon Manuka Smoked Salmon 100g Smoked fish
- Aquafresh Smoked Tuna 200g Smoked fish
- Aquafresh Smoked Kingfish 200g Smoked fish
- AquaFresh Smoked Warehou 250g Smoked fish