National Guidance

Guidance for Assessing Chemical Contaminant Data for Use In Fish Advisories

Guidance for Conducting Fish and Wildlife Consumption Surveys (PDF, 2.3MB)
Design a survey to obtain consumption rate information.

Estimated Per Capita Fish Consumption in the United States (EPA-821-C-02-003) (August 2002) (PDF, 3.3MB) This report displays daily average per capita fish consumption estimates that may be used in estimating risk to human health from the consumption of contaminated freshwater and estuarine finfish and shellfish species.

For more information on EPA's Fish Advisory Program, contact: Jeffrey Bigler at US EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (4305T), Washington, DC 20460; e-mail: bigler.jeff@epa.gov

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