Advice on Eating Crab from Puget Sound

• Eat Dungeness or red rock crab from non-urban areas.

• Don’t eat the crab butter or viscera. Viscera are the internal organs under the shell.

• If you cook crab in boiled water, don’t use the water for soup stock, broth, or gravy.

Data has shown that crabs from industrial urban areas may contain more contaminants than those from non-urban areas, and that crab viscera has more contaminants than crab muscle.

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