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.

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    Traces of Cesium-137 are widespread in the environment including food, soil and air.

    Couldn’t this contamination just be the result of old nuclear tests or accidents rather than something recent? Fukushima dumped a lot of Cs-137 and other contaminants into the Pacific.

    This other article really had me scratching my head, though. Emphasis mine.

    Testing hasn’t turned up contamination in any product that made it to shelves, the FDA said — the shrimp “appears to have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with Cs-137 and may pose a safety concern.”

    The shrimp came out of the water fine, but it was stored someplace where it just picked up 68 becquerels per kilogram of Cs-137? How does that even make sense?

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      Shrimp source is from Indonesia company. Opposite side of Fukushima. Maybe they are transhipping their garbage to deregulated shithole countries hoping US won’t notice.

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          I’m still working out heat sinks and haven’t even gotten into nitrogen besides parking a fused assembler next to one spot. This game gets wild, fast.

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      I don’t know about you, but I am certainly not cleaning my shelves well enough to avoid Cs-137 contaminating my shrimp…