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Shrimp

Shrimp
Recommended servings per month
Contaminant | Men | Women | Kids 6-12 | Kids 0-5 | |
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Shrimp and prawns (imported) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Giant freshwater prawn (Asia) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Giant freshwater prawn (U.S., Canada, Latin America) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Pink shrimp (Gulf of Mexico and Mexico) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Giant tiger prawn | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Spot prawn (Canada) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Spot prawns (U.S.) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
U.S. farmed shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
U.S. wild shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Blue shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Brown shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Chinese white shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Northern shrimp (U.S., Canada) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Pink shrimp (Florida and Southern Atlantic) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Pink shrimp (Oregon) | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
White shrimp | Mercury | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ | 4+ |
Whiteleg shrimp (Ecuador) | Mercury | 4+ | 4 | 4+ | 4+ |
Eco details:
- Although Best Choices, U.S. farmed shrimp, spot prawns from Canada and Oregon pink shrimp (bite-size ""cocktail"" shrimp) are a small fraction of the shrimp sold in the U.S. market.
- Why? Most shrimp (90 percent) eaten in the US. is imported from Southeast Asia and Latin America, where environmental regulations are often lax or not enforced.
- The rest on the market (10 percent) comes from the Southeast U.S. (Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean), where fisheries and farms are held to stricter environmental standards.
- OK Choices are northern shrimp and U.S. wild shrimp.