2004 EPA and FDA Advice for:

• Women Who Might Become Pregnant
• Women Who are Pregnant
• Nursing Mothers
• Young Children

Links:
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish/advice/

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html

II.Federal Food& Drug Administration. Commercial Consumption of Fish:

What if I Eat Fish From Other Sources Such as Restaurants, Stores, or Other Water Bodies That May Not Have an Advisory?
Most commercial fish have relatively low amounts of methylmercury and can be eaten safely in moderate amounts. However, several types of fish such as large, predatory, long-lived fish have high levels of methylmercury, and could cause overly high exposure to methylmercury if eaten often. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for the safety of commercial seafood. FDA advises that women who are pregnant or could become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish.

FDA also advises that women of childbearing age and pregnant women may eat an average of 12 ounces of fish purchased in stores and restaurants each week. However, if 12 ounces of cooked fish from a store or restaurant are eaten in a given week, then fish caught by family or friends should not be eaten the same week. This is important to keep the total level of methylmercury contributed by all fish at a low level in the body. The FDA advice can be found at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg.html.

 

III. State. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Topic: Methylmercury in Fish. Title: Advice for Women of Childbearing Years and Children.

Links:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/preg/index.html
General
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish.html

IV. State. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Sport Fishing Advisories in California Water Bodies & Waterways.

Title: Health Advisory And Safe Eating Guidelines For Fish From Folsom Lake And Lake Natoma (Sacramento, El Dorado And Placer Counties) [10/15/08]. Also contains downloadable links in pdf format.

 Link:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/so_cal/folnat101108.html


The Safe Eating Guidelines for the San Joaquin River. There is one set of guidelines for women of childbearing age and children, and a different one for women beyond childbearing age and men.
Link:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/pdf/SJRguide030907.pdf

The Safe Eating Guidelines for the South Delta. There is one set of guidelines for women of childbearing age and children, and a different one for women beyond childbearing age and men.
Link:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/pdf/SDguide030907.pdf

Health Advisory for Selected Water Bodies in the Northern Sierra Nevada Foothills (Nevada, Placer, and Yuba Counties) [12/12/03]

Link:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/so_cal/nosierra.html

For the most part you can click on specific areas of the map where you have clients and it will link you to the available sport fishing advisories:

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/pdf/fishmap2007.pdf

V. PCBs in Fish ( Polychlorinated Byphenyls in Fish)


Link:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/pcb/index.html