Seafood Safe

Seafood Safe is a certification program for seafood companies, retailers, and restaurants in the United States that want to demonstrate their products meet safe consumption levels of mercury and PCBs. The program awards a Seafood Safe label that can be displayed on certified products, giving consumers a recognizable signal of contaminant safety.

The certification process begins with a confidential pre-assessment, during which Seafood Safe works with the business to develop a customized testing regime tailored to the specific products they sell. This approach accounts for differences in seafood types and supply chains, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all standard.

If the business decides to move forward after the pre-assessment, they enter into a formal agreement with Seafood Safe and commit to an ongoing, predetermined schedule of regular contaminant testing. Maintaining the label requires continued compliance with that testing regime, making it an ongoing certification rather than a one-time evaluation.