In response to an overwhelming number of comments… 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 (since we published our first tuna fish lab report yesterday – link 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 the funds for this testing this week, we will get these products off to the lab this week — and have the results back and published 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 the lab reports when they are 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 6-Pack of this “premium” fish (about $25.00). If enough people do that, this campaign will fund very quickly and we will be able to quickly test all four products. We will test them in the following order (based on the requests for testing) 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 so we have a basis for comparison on the different types fish – and the data to dispel some of the myths around the topic of heavy-metals contamination of fish products).
- Here’s the link with our budget for laboratory testing and reporting
- Here’s the link to our landing page which links or lists all of our published and pending lab reports
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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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?