In response to an overwhelming number of comments... Here's our plan for testing Safe Catch brand fish

October 27, 2025
Monday

Hi friends!

In response to an overwhelming number of comments and feedback from all of you (after we published our first tuna fish lab report yesterday — linked here), we launched a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of testing and reporting for the four Safe Catch brand fish products pictured above. Here’s that link: https://gofund.me/90368e1ab

If we can raise these funds within the week, we can send the products to the lab this week as well, and then receive results back in time to publish them likely in the first week of November.

As always, please join us as a member on our Patreon page to be among the first to see these lab reports once published. You can join us on Patreon for free or with a small monthly contribution in support of the Lead Safe Mama, LLC Community Collaborative Laboratory Testing initiative. All membership levels (free and paid) have the same benefits, as our information is never behind a paywall. Here’s the link to our Patreon Membership page: https://www.patreon.com/leadsafemama/membership

Please contribute whatever you can afford in support of this community collaborative laboratory testing initiative, but please do consider contributing at least what you might spend for a six-pack of this “premium” fish (about $25). If enough people do that, this campaign will fund very quickly and we will be able to test all four products as soon as possible. We will test them in the following order (based on the number of requests) if all funds are not raised right away:

Elite (Skip Jack)
Ahi
Albacore
Salmon

For each $525 raised on this campaign, we will send one of these fish products to the lab (but hopefully we will raise enough to test all of them in the same round, creating a basis for comparison of the different fish types and compiling data to dispel some of the myths surrounding heavy-metals contamination in fish products).

Thank you.

Tamara Rubin
& The Lead Safe Mama Team

Just in case you missed the sardines lab report, here’s that, too.

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3 Comments

Thanks, Tamara, for initiating this endeavor! It will be good to know how well Safe Catch is generally doing, at making their products truly safe. I was attracted to their Wild Pink Salmon *in a pouch* because I hoped to avoid whatever contaminants (or “toxicants”?) would be imparted or leached into the food from it being put into a can. According to an Internet search that I did with Perplexity AI (a very helpful search engine), consuming foods that are stored in metal cans — can result in increased levels of: “lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), tin (Sn), arsenic (As), and vanadium (V)” and several other bad things were mentioned also. Thus, it seems the container can matter too. Would the product, if sold in a pouch, be significantly cleaner?
Additional details. —-> Following is the exact question that I asked of Perplexity AI (which you probably don’t want to bother posting, in the Comment, as it will be more words than the average Comment-reader probably wants to read). My question was: What sorts of toxicants or contamination of foods, even at minute or small levels (sucn as parts per million, or parts per billion), can happen to the foods simply by them being put into a typical type of metal can and sold as a consumer food product?

I’ve been consuming their sardines for years, due to the great levels of healthy omegas and other nutrients. I saw a study a while back that showed people that ate sardines regularly retained more of their white and grey matter in old age. I chose SafeCatch, given their suggestion that every sample is tested for mercury. What I’ve learned lately, including through your test of a competitors sardines, is that arsenic can be through the roof. I reached out to SafeCatch, and they confirmed they do not test for arsenic.