Posted on 12/23/2025 8:43:55 AM PST by Red Badger
The latest recall impacts Washington state-based Direct Source Seafood LLC products sold at various locations.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed a recall of more than 83,000 bags of raw frozen shrimp for potential radioactive contamination, expanding actions taken against shrimp products that were imported from Indonesia.
According to an announcement last week, Washington state-based Direct Source Seafood LLC is recalling 83,800 bags of frozen raw shrimp sold under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brand names “because they may have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with” radioactive cesium-137, or Cs-137. “Traces of Cs-137 are widespread and can be present in the environment at background levels, and at higher levels in water or foods grown, raised, or produced in areas with environmental contamination,” said the company through the FDA’s website.
“The primary health effect of concern following longer term, repeated low dose exposure (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.”
Stores that carried the shrimp include Price Chopper, Albertsons, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, and Lucky Supermarket, it said.
The shrimp was sold in locations in Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wyoming, and Vermont, according to the recall statement.
The shrimp products sold by Price Chopper were packaged in 1-pound bags with UPC codes 0 41735 and 01358 3. Other stores had 2-pound bags that had codes 021130 and 13224-9.
“Consumers who have purchased affected shrimp should not consume the product and should dispose of or return it to the place of purchase for a full refund,” the recall statement said.
No illnesses have been reported in connection with the latest recall. No product that tested positive for Cs-137 has entered the U.S. marketplace, the FDA said.
The latest action marks an expansion of a recall of frozen shrimp products sourced by one Indonesian company due to the presence of Cs-137, a manmade isotope. The FDA said it is investigating reports of contamination in containers and frozen shipments produced by the company, PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati, which is doing business as BMS Foods.
In August, Walmart recalled frozen raw shrimp sold in 13 states due to potential radioactive contamination. At the time, the FDA asked Walmart to pull three lots of Great Value brand frozen shrimp from stores.
In separate recalls announced earlier this year, Southwind Foods LLC, AquaStar Corp., Beaver Street Fisheries LLC, and H&N Group Inc. recalled numerous lots and bags of shrimp sold in grocery stores due to potential contamination, the FDA said.
The FDA issued a safety alert in August warning consumers not to eat certain frozen shrimp imported from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati. The radioactive isotope was detected in shipping containers from the company sent to several U.S. ports, as well as in a sample of frozen breaded shrimp. The FDA also posted an import alert to stop potentially contaminated shrimp from entering the United States. More than 3 million pounds of shrimp exported by BMS Foods have arrived at U.S. ports in September, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection records. The level of cesium 137 detected in the frozen shrimp was about 68 becquerels per kilogram, a measure of radioactivity. That is far below the FDA’s level of 1,200 becquerels per kilogram that could trigger the need for health protections.
Well dang it was the good stuff off the coast of Japan too.
Yeah, they don’t make that stuff anymore............
There goes my glow in the dark supply
I only buy shrimp from the my local waters here in NC. No grocery store shrimp. 🤮
Thank you!
That’s WAY in the middle of nowhere in North West Australia. I think it was called Exmouth. I went scuba diving up there on a road trip from Perth. Talk about desolate. ONly thing out there are a few old military bases and iron ore trains and jetties for the ships.
Plenty of it. But we have laws making it very difficult and expensive to harvest.
You can read the 2024 Loper Decision where the National Marine Fisheries Service was requiring all herring boat to have on board a government certified observer and pay for it out of their own pocket. This is only the tip of the ice burg. Some of the rules and regulations are health related but most are blatant cash grabs by the government.
Yes it does! I also used an alpha scintillator and found it to be even spicier!
Not bikini or Fukushima. C137 is THE industrial isotope for gamma ray production. It’s used in a host of industries. Oil and gas for one, food sterilization aka irradiated foods( fruit, veggies and meats) the EU has irradiation mandates. Medical sterilization of instruments and devices as well.
[Cesium-137 (Cs-137) is used in medical therapy (cancer treatment), industrial gauges (thickness, density, flow measurement in pipes/soil), food irradiation (sterilization/preservation), radiation detection calibration, radiometric dating, and environmental tracing of soil movement, leveraging its consistent gamma radiation and long half-life]
The list is long.
[Medical Uses
Cancer Therapy: Used in sealed sources for brachytherapy (internal radiation) and external beam radiotherapy to target and destroy cancer cells.
Sterilization: Irradiates medical equipment and supplies to kill pathogens.
Industrial & Scientific Uses
Gauge Calibration: Calibrates radiation detection equipment like Geiger counters.
Thickness Gauges: Measures thickness of paper, metal sheets, or photographic film.
Density/Moisture Gauges: Measures soil compaction in construction and moisture content.
Flow Meters: Detects liquid flow in pipes and boreholes.
Radiometric Dating: Helps determine the age of materials.
Scintillation Counters: Used in compounds (like CsI) to detect radiation.
Environmental & Other Applications
Food Irradiation: Sterilizes food, kills germs, delays ripening, and extends shelf life.
Soil Erosion Studies: Acts as a tracer to identify soil movement and deposition.]
All it takes is for any one of these industrial users to illegally dump a Cesium source rod into a landfill or worse into a watershed and everything down steam is now going to be laced with cesium as it leaches into the water supply.
China and India are notorious for having cesium and other radioisotope in the wild and dumped all over the place and into the oceans too.
“Some days though, all of my puns are in vein.”
That must result in a lot of crustacean for you.
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