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Swordfish

Completeness scorecard

Not yet characterized — scorecard activates at 2 contributing A-tier sources.

Provisional scaffold. This page was created automatically on 2026-05-18 so that an ingested source could route to it. Aliases, category, and the contamination profile have not yet been populated. Content below is minimal until a synthesis pass consolidates the literature for this ingredient.

Reason: P0167 Smolikova 2016 declared swordfish as a high-mercury fish species requiring a routing destination

Triggering source: smolikova2016-heavy-metals-fish-czech

Literature scope

The literature corpus for this ingredient is currently thin. Sources route here as ingest proceeds; once enough sources accumulate per the Part 9 synthesis trigger (n_studies ≥ 2 per metal), the synthesis pass will populate the contamination profile.

Sources

Auto-generated from source-page frontmatter. The “Used on this page for” column is populated by the orchestrator’s POPULATE-SOURCE-LEGEND action; pending entries appear as *[awaiting synthesis]*.

#CitationYearTypeUsed on this page for
1Garofalo et al. 2025. Monitoring of Cadmium, Lead, and Mercury Levels in Seafood Products: A Ten-Year Analysis, Foods 14(3):4512025Peer-reviewedIT/EU Cd, Pb, tHg occurrence in 5,854 seafood samples (9,809 analyses: 4,300 THg + 3,338 Cd + 2,171 Pb) collected and analyzed by Istituto… (n=5854)
2Oktariani et al. 2023. Heavy metals content in fresh tuna and swordfish caught from Hindian and Pacific Oceans: Health risk assessment of dietary exposure, Veterinary World2023Peer-reviewedID Cd, Pb, tHg occurrence in Fresh yellowfin tuna and swordfish from FAO zones 57 and 71 collected at Indonesian ports
3DASU et al. 2022. Determination of Geographical and Seasonal Variations of Heavy Metals in Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) and Yellowfin Tuna (Thunnus albacares), International Journal of Current Science Research and Review2022Peer-reviewedLK tHg, Pb, tAs, Cd occurrence in Secondary heavy-metal analysis data for swordfish and yellowfin tuna from Sri Lankan export companies, 2015-2017
4Mehouel et al. 2021. Review of the toxic trace elements arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in seafood species from Algeria and contiguous waters in the Southwestern Mediterranean Sea, Environmental Science and Pollution Research2021Peer reviewed reviewDZ/TN/MA tAs, Cd, Pb, tHg, MeHg occurrence in Narrative review of published As, Cd, Pb, Hg, and MeHg occurrence studies in fish, mollusks, and crustaceans from…
5Tamele et al. 2020. Lead, Mercury and Cadmium in Fish and Shellfish from the Indian Ocean and Red Sea (African Countries): Public Health Challenges, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering2020Peer reviewed reviewEG/DJ/KE Pb, tHg, Cd occurrence in Narrative review of Pb, Hg, and Cd in fish and shellfish from African countries bordering the Indian Ocean…
6Handayani et al. 2019. Kandungan Logam Berat Merkuri Pada Ikan Tuna (Yellowfin dan Bigeye) dan Tuna-like (Swordfish) Hasil Tangkapan dari Samudera Hindia dan Samudera Pasifik, Jurnal Pascapanen dan Bioteknologi Kelautan dan Perikanan2019Peer-reviewedID tHg occurrence in 895 official-control mercury records for yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, and swordfish from Indian and Pacific Ocean catch areas
7Mehouel et al. 2019. Risk assessment of mercury and methyl mercury intake via sardine and swordfish consumption in Algeria, Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society2019Peer-reviewedDZ tHg, MeHg occurrence in Sardine and swordfish collected from Bejaia, Algiers, and Oran coasts in Algeria, April-September 2017
8Harding et al. 2018. Bioaccumulation of methylmercury within the marine food web of the outer Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine, PLoS ONE2018Peer-reviewedCA/US MeHg, tHg occurrence in Marine food-web organisms from the outer Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine
9Watanabe et al. 2017. Surveillance of Total Mercury and Methylmercury Concentrations in Retail Fish, Food Hygiene and Safety Science2017Peer-reviewedJP tHg, MeHg occurrence in 210 retail fish samples across 19 fish species in Japan
10Hsi et al. 2016. Methylmercury Concentration in Fish and Risk-Benefit Assessment of Fish Intake among Pregnant versus Infertile Women in Taiwan, PLOS ONE2016Peer-reviewedTW MeHg occurrence in Fish consumed in Taiwan and hair samples from pregnant and infertile women
11Smolikova et al. 2016. Determination of heavy metals in fish products, MendelNet 2016: Proceedings of International PhD Students Conference, pp. 651-6562016Conference proceedingsCZ/EU tHg, Cd, Pb occurrence in 33 species of fish purchased in Brno City (Czech Republic) markets from 17 FAO localities, September 2015–June 2016;… (n=159)
12EFSA 2015. Statement on the benefits of fish/seafood consumption compared to the risks of methylmercury in fish/seafood, EFSA Journal 2015;13(1):3982, 36 pp.2015Government reportEU MeHg, tHg occurrence in Scenario-based risk-benefit assessment across 26 chronic dietary surveys from 17 EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,…
13Olmedo et al. 2013. Determination of toxic elements (mercury, cadmium, lead, tin and arsenic) in fish and shellfish samples. Risk assessment for the consumers, Environment International2013Peer-reviewedES/MA/MR tHg, MeHg, Cd, Pb, Sn, tAs occurrence in Fresh, canned, and frozen fish and shellfish products representing 43 frequently consumed species/products in Andalusia, Spain; samples collected… (n=485)
14Committee on Toxicity of 2004. Updated COT statement on a survey of mercury in fish and shellfish, Advice on fish consumption, Annex 32004Government reportGB tHg, MeHg occurrence in COT/SACN review of the 2002 FSA fish and shellfish mercury survey, 1998 MAFF marine fish/shellfish survey context, and…

Page history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page. The full version history lives in git; when DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

CommitDateDescription
69e1bd72026-05-28autonomy: commit pending sync-source-counts + tracker updates from stalled ticks
2e764842026-05-26state sync: 16h of daemon-stalled work — ingredient/routing/audit updates from yesterday’s interrupted tick
83afba82026-05-18autonomy: daemon tick 2026-05-18T20-18-55Z — gap-healing + extraction + pooling + briefings
17cfe9d2026-05-18ingest (codex): smolikova2016 fish products merge-enhance

Page history

The five most recent substantive edits to this page. The full version history lives in git; when DOI minting comes online (see schema docs), each entry below will also link to a version-pinned DataCite DOI.

CommitDateDescription
b0f3d382026-06-12batch | corpus rescreen b04 old terminal skips