Chinook (king) salmon, wild

FDA/EPA Best choice (listed as “Salmon”) in the FDA/EPA Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). How much and how often is their advice, not ours.

Low mercury & PCBsOn the Dietary Guidelines’ even-lower-mercury list, and its dioxin + PCB figure is at or under 0.62 pg TEQ/g — the level at which 8 oz a week stays within EFSA’s weekly limit for a 70 kg adult. A threshold we publish, not a safety rating. How

Composition per 100 g as eaten — cooked, or canned and drained. Mercury is FDA’s species mean, as FDA publishes it; for species FDA does not cover, the sample-weighted mean of the surveys listed. Dioxins + PCBs are survey means (or a median, where noted) per gram of fish as sold, in each survey’s own TEQ scheme. Tagged wild from NOAA Fisheries, which describes US Chinook salmon as wild-caught and says most Chinook in the US market comes from US and Canadian fisheries; the USDA row itself does not say.