The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about retail shrimp packages that could be contaminated with radioactive Cesium-137. Testing of products discovered the contamination in packages stopped at the border for inspection.
The government has no verification that contaminated shrimp got into the U.S. food supply. But it nonetheless issued a warning for anyone who purchased certain retail packages of frozen raw shrimp to simply discard them. It also recommended that shippers recall the affected products that may be in the distribution system to prevent them from arriving at U.S. stores.
The FDA release pinpointed “Certain raw frozen shrimp products processed by PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati (doing business as BMS Foods), a company located in Indonesia, and sold at Walmart stores in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MO, MS, OH, OK, PA, TX, and WV.”
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