Scallop
What the research shows
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What research says
Found in some samples or products
These come from where it was grown, how it was processed or cooked, or what it was made into. They are not about the ingredient itself, so the signal does not count them.
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Mercury in tinned shellfish3
In tinned variegated scallops from Spain, mercury was found at low levels.
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Products
The 6 most-scanned of 164 products on Open Food Facts that list scallop.
- Fish Pie M&S Gastropub · 800 g 1 additive
- Rich & Creamy Fish Pie M&S · 400 g 0 additives
- Scallops Whole Foods 0 additives
- NOIX DE SAINT JACQUES SANS CORAIL MSC (usa) - Placopecten magellanicus - 300G Odyssee · 300 g 0 additives
- Raw patagonian scallops Tesco 0 additives
- Cioppino Seafood Stew Trader Joe's · 16 oz 1 additive
References
- 1scallop: ingredient taxonomy entry. Open Food Facts.
- 2Scallop. Wikipedia. Accessed September 30, 2026. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 3Gutiérrez AJ, Lozano G, González T, Ignacio Reguera J, Hardisson A. Mercury content in tinned molluscs (mussel, cockle, variegated scallop, and razor shell) normally consumed in Spain, 2005. J Food Prot. 2006;69(9):2237-40. doi:10.4315/0362-028x-69.9.2237