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Posted on 08/19/2025 12:43:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Officials said, at this time, no product that has tested positive or alerted for Cesium-137 (Cs-137) has entered the U.S. commerce
The FDA is warning the public about possibly radioactive shrimp that may have been sold at Walmart in 13 states.
The warning is for some Great Value raw frozen shrimp because it may be contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope, the FDA announced on Tuesday.
The products include the following product names, lot codes, and best by dates:
Great Value brand Frozen Raw Ez Peel Tail-On Farm-Raised White Vannamei Shrimp, 2lb bag, lot code: 8005540-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027
Great Value brand Frozen Raw Ez Peel Tail-On Farm-Raised White Vannamei Shrimp, 2lb bag, lot code: 8005538-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027
Great Value brand Frozen Raw Ez Peel Tail-On Farm-Raised White Vannamei Shrimp, 2lb bag, lot code: 8005539-1, Best by Date: 3/15/2027
Walmart says the products were sold at stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia.
U.S. Customs & Border Protection alerted the FDA about possible Cesium-137 (Cs-137) detected in shipping containers at four U.S. ports.
The FDA then tested samples of shrimp - initially processed by BMS foods of Indonesia - and found radioactive materials.
Officials said, at this time, no product that has tested positive or alerted for Cesium-137 (Cs-137) has entered the U.S. commerce.
Still, they are advising that if you recently purchased one of the impacted lots of Great Value raw frozen shrimp from Walmart, throw it away. Do not eat or serve this product.
Distributors and retailers are also being told to dispose of this product.
FDA is working with distributors and retailers that received product from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati after the date of first detection of Cs-137 to recommend that firms conduct a recall.
In conjunction with other information, FDA says that product from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati violates the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act, saying that it appears to have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whihc may have contributed to it possibly being contaminated with Cs-137, posing a safety concern.
The FDA says that PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati has been added to a new import alert for chemical contamination to stop products from this firm from coming into the U.S. until further notice.
The primary health effect of concern following longer term, repeated low dose exposure of Cs-137 (e.g., through consumption of contaminated food or water over time) is an elevated risk of cancer, resulting from damage to DNA within living cells of the body.
If you suspect you have been exposed to elevated levels of cesium, talk to your healthcare provider.
Action News has reached out to Walmart for comment but has not yet heard back.
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Thanks for laugh.
Unless the ChiComs thought that they could blackmail the Japanese government with the info.
“Still, they are advising that if you recently purchased one of the impacted lots of Great Value raw frozen shrimp from Walmart, throw it away.”
Just throw away radioactive material?
They obviously don’t think any actually are radioactive.
Well, well, well...
Apparently nuclear forensics is a thing.
This stuff can be traced.
Are they on sale?
It is unlikely that they would try blackmail.
If the Chinese tried blackmail the Japanese would simply verify do their own testing and then make their own announcement.
Then make a plan to clean up the source and announce the plan.
It works more to the Chinese benefit to expose the Japanese failure to control the waste.
How can both of these statements from the article be true?
Officials said, at this time, no product that has tested positive or alerted for Cesium-137 (Cs-137) has entered the U.S. commerce
The FDA is warning the public about possibly radioactive shrimp that may have been sold at Walmart in 13 states.
I thought it was all farm raised now. Hos did Cs-137 get into that?
Farm raised are often more contaminated. But there is still wild shrimp.
“We’ve gotta start taking Geiger counters to the store now? Geez….”
The great contaminated milk scare from the ‘60s.
#”So, if one already has cancer, forgo radiation treatments and load up on walmart shrimp!”
Bad advice!
ping to check Dad’s freezer.
,”If these shrimp were found on the grounds of a nuclear power plant, the shrimp would be required to be disposed of as radioactive waste.”
That can’t be determined without knowing contamination levels.
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I hope I live to see the day that Walmart K-Marts it's self out of business.
Right there in the story: “ initially processed by BMS foods of Indonesia”.
Looks like the farm was in Indonesia!
Fukushima water may be the source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X14005621
Due to their chemical properties, the 137Cs radionuclides can be soluble in seawater, which allows them to spread over long distances by marine currents and dissipate throughout the oceanic water masses (Povinec et al., 2004). Oceanic currents (e.g., the Oyashio and Kuroshio currents) will transport radionuclides quickly from the western North Pacific Coast off Japan and undergo advection and mixing (Bu et al., 2013). Pacific water that is transferred into the Indian Ocean through this association is well known as Indonesian Through Flow (ITF) (Sprintall et al., 2009). Thus, the 137Cs and 134Cs radionuclides potentially entered the Indonesian sea from Fukushima through ITF.
Is Cesium a Beta emitter? I’m not smart enough to know that, but I think not, or put another way a Geiger counter would be useless to detect.
I don’t think Geiger counters detect Cesium (or Strontium 90). Bad stuff, the latter is almost indistinguishable from Calcium in the human body, which absorbs it readily.
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