More packages of frozen shrimp potentially affected by radioactive contamination have been recalled.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34796179

More packages of frozen shrimp potentially affected by radioactive contamination have been recalled, federal officials said Thursday.

California-based Southwind Foods recalled frozen shrimp sold under the brands Sand Bar, Arctic Shores, Best Yet, Great American and First Street. The bagged products were distributed between July 17 and Aug. 8 to stores and wholesalers in nine states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state.

The products have the potential to be contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of nuclear reactions.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Has no one else read the story?! The Cs was detected in the shipping container, not the shrimp.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    frozen breaded shrimp imported by BMS Foods of Indonesia

    Not a country with nuclear reactors. Could be nice if they could trace where they were fishing it, because right now, with lack of info, every sea food from Asia, perhaps Pacific or Oceans, is suspect.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They look cheap and nasty based on the packaging alone. Looks like my kid made it in school.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    To quote Ron Burgundy:

    I’m not even mad, that’s amazing

    Like, there’s a good chance that this leads to us discovering a “secret” nuke test, it would almost be worst case scenario if this “just happened”.

    C-137 doesn’t just fucking happen, it and S-90 are fission byproducts.

    Either someone tested a nuke in the ocean, or there’s somehow fission happening somewhere in the ocean without human involvement.

    • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Cs-137 is used in industrial density gauges. You want to measure the density of a liquid in a pipe? A radioactive source on one side, a detector on the other, easy-peasy.

      Now how the fuck a controlled substance escapes from its highly encapsulated and supposedly-well-tested-and-regularly-inspected compartment and gets into your food, well that’s something else to ponder.