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FDA recalls more shrimp due to ☢️ radioactive threat ⚠️

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced another recall of frozen shrimp sold at Walmart, citing potential contamination with ce

By JONEL ALECCIA

Updated 12:12 PM CDT, August 29, 2025

More companies are recalling tens of thousands of packages of imported shrimp sold at Walmart, Kroger and other U.S. stores because they may contain radioactive contamination, according to federal notices.

AquaStar USA Corp. of Seattle is recalling more than 26,000 packages of refrigerated cocktail shrimp sold at Walmart stores in 27 states between July 31 and Aug. 16. The company is also recalling about 18,000 bags of Kroger-branded cooked, medium peeled, tail-off shrimp sold at stores in 17 states between July 24 and Aug. 11.

At the same time, H&N Group Inc., a wholesale seafood distributor in Vernon, California, is recalling more than 17,000 cases of frozen shrimp sold to grocery stores on the East Coast, according to a notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That recall began on Aug. 12.

The products have been pulled because they may be contaminated with Cesium-137, a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of nuclear reactions. The risk appears to be small, but the shrimp could pose a “potential health concern” for people exposed to low levels of Cesium-137 over time, FDA officials said.

The FDA issued a safety alert this month warning consumers not to eat certain frozen shrimp imported from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati, an Indonesian company doing business as BMS Foods. Cesium-137 was detected in shipping containers from the company sent to U.S. ports and in a sample of frozen breaded shrimp.

FDA has also added PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati to a new import alert for chemical contamination to stop products from this firm from coming into the U.S.

It remains unclear how the containers or the shrimp became contaminated. Federal officials said they are investigating and declined to respond to detailed questions from The Associated Press about the source or extent of the contamination.

None of the shrimp that triggered alerts or tested positive for Cesium-137 was released for sale, the FDA said. But other shipments sent to stores may have been manufactured under conditions that allowed the products to become contaminated, the agency said.

Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection first detected the potential radioactive contamination in shipping containers sent to U.S. ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Savannah, Georgia. Customs officials alerted the FDA, which conducted tests of packaged shrimp and confirmed Cesium-137 in a single sample.

Experts in nuclear radiation agreed that the health risk is low, but said it’s important to determine the source of the contamination and share that information with the public.

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.

It is unusual to see this concentration of Cesium-137 in shrimp, said Steve Biegalski, who chairs the Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Routine levels detected in shrimp from the Pacific Ocean are about 100 times lower than those found in the BMS shrimp, according to the American Nuclear Society.

“We sometimes can see Cesium-137 from historic nuclear weapons fallout, nuclear accidents such as Fukushima or Chernobyl, but the levels in the environment are super, super, super low right now and cannot explain what’s going on here,” Biegalski said.

___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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A radiation alert is in force for parts of Western Australia after a tiny capsule containing Caesium-137 was lost.

So, maybe if you're in Western Australia, don't pick up any shiny capsules.

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the accident of Cesium-137 in Brazil

01 - now, this particular event proves how creative brazilian people can get, even when it comes to spreading radioactive materials (proving once again that we’re the superior race) it is cited as one of the worst nuclear disasters and one of the world’s worst radiological incidents

02 - Cesium 137 (this is how we refer to the accident locally, so i’ll use the terminology on this thread) happened on 1987. it killed 4 people and infected nearly 2k people indirectly. it’s a 5 level radioactive accident, in a scale that goes from 0 to 7. so yeah it was kinda bad

03 - here’s how it started: this hospital closed down and left some of its equipment in the abandoned site, rather than properly disposing of it. although the government was aware of the abandoned radioactive material in the building, a court order impeded them from removing it

a security guard was posted at the site to protect the abandoned equipment. however, during his absence on september 18th, two scavengers entered the facility and disassembled the radiotherapy machine. believing it would have some selling value, they took it home with them

that’s when the first signs of contamination began to appear — they started vomiting, and the scavenger Pereira experienced diarrhea and dizziness and his hand started to swell, before a burn developed on it. Pereira visited a clinic and his symptoms were diagnosed as food poison

the other scavenger, Alves, carried on dismantling the equipment. he freed the cesium from its protective capsule, by tearing a puncture on it. he was amazed by the deep blue light coming from it (cesium is known to glow in the dark) and believed it to be some sort of gunpowder

Alves sold the items to a scrapyard on september 21st, owned by Devair. Devair was enchanted by the blue glow coming from inside the capsule, believing it to be valuable or even supernatural. he brought it home, having invited friends n family to see the strange glowing substance

Devair’s wife, Maria Gabriela, began to fall ill that same day, and Devair sold the scrap metal to another scrapyard. but before that, Devair’s brother, Ivo, scraped some of the glowing dust out of the source and took it home to show to his 6 year old daughter, Leide das Neves

04 - Leide das Neves was fascinated by the blue glow, and started to play with it. she applied it to her body as well as eating it, when the substance fell to her meal (and she probably didn’t wash her hands). the amount of radiation she received was enough to eventually kill her

05 - Maria Gabriela soon started to notice that everybody around her and the neighborhood was falling ill, and she assumed the powder was responsible for it. so, on september 28th, she took the matter to the authorities

06 - only on september 29th the government issued an alert about the radioactive contamination. both Maria Gabriela and Leide das Neves were taken to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro for better treatment

07 - the government tried to hide the accident, telling the terrified population that a gas leak had happened. still, the local population was triaged to assess whether they had been contaminated or not. over 1600 people were affected and about 250 showed signs of radiation sickness

08 - Leide das Neves died on October 23rd, and was buried in a common cemetery in Goiânia in a special coffin to prevent the radiation from spreading. on the day of her burial, there was a riot of over 2k people in the cemetery, all scared that her body’d poison the surrounding land

09 - Brazilian hazmat workers removing a capsule from the scene of the Goiânia Incident in 1987 which killed 4 people and exposed 249 others to dangerous doses of radiation.

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Some of our radioactive waste products, such as cesium-137, are melted and mixed with glass, then cooled into a solid block that can be wrapped in more shielding so they can be safely transported and stored.

In the dark, these glass blocks glow blue.

Cesium-137 has a half-life of thirty years, which means that two centuries later, they’ll still be glowing with 1 percent of their original radioactivity. Since the color of the light depends only on the decay of energy, and not the amount of radiation, it will fade in brightness over time but keep the same blue color.

And thus we arrive at our answer: Centuries from now, deep in concrete vaults, the light from our most toxic waste will still be shining.

Last Human Light, from: What If, by Randall Munroe

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Cesium 137

Nükleer reaktörlerin yakıtı olarak kullanılan Cesium 137 gezegenimize ait olmayan bir madde, yani petrol ya da doğalgaz gibi gezegenimizin içinde bulunan bir element değil bu, insan üretimi olarak yapılmış ve insanlık tarihinde bilinen en zehirli maddedir. Küçük bir demir para büyüklüğünde, toplamda sadece iki gramı bile 3500 dönüm büyüklüğünde bir ormanda ağacından kuşuna, balığından karıncasına toprağın üstünde ya da altında, en derinlerinde yaşayan her şeyi öldürmeye yeter. Peki sizce, tonlarca Cesium 137’yi depolayıp yakıt olarak kullanarak, ki lütfen iki gramının dahi bir ormanda yaşayan her cana ne yapacağını unutmayın, kaburgasının ortasından kolu çıkmış, kafa tasındaki deformasyon yüzünden gözü kulağının içinde olan ve buna rağmen yaşayan çocukları hatırlayın ve sorun kendinize böylesine zehirli bir maddeden enerji üretmeye çalışmak tehlikeli değil mi?!

1986 yılında Çernobil’de patlayan reaktörden atmosfere yayılan Cesium 137 yüzünden 985 bin kişi öldü. Hâlâ da ölmeye devam ediyorlar çünkü bu radyasyon 300 yıl kalıyor bulaştığı yerde ve ancak 40 sene sonra yarı değerine düşebiliyor. Henüz yarı değerine bile düşmedi ve hâlâ o çevrede yaşayan herkesi zehirlemeye devam ediyor. Radyasyon rüzgârla taşınır, yağmurla toprağa iner ve yetişen her şeye bulaşır. İşte bu yüzden Çernobil sonrasında Minsk’te hasarlı doğum oranı yüzde 250, Gomel’de tiroit kanseriyse 10 bin kat artmıştır. Bugün Çernobil’in toplamda hayatını kararttığı insan sayısı 7 milyondur. 7 milyon kişi radyasyonun zehriyle kanser, kalp hastalığı gibi hastalıklarla mahvoldular. Peki neden insanlar taşınıp kaçmıyorlar o bölgeden?

Çünkü bilmiyorlar. Yaşamı yaratan o muazzam enerjinin karşısında insan tarafından üretilmiş bu zehir var şimdi, iki metre uzaklıktan sadece birkaç saniye temasta dahi tüm yaşamı anında yok edecek kadar güçlü bir zehir. Ve biz bu kadar kötü bir şeyden enerji üretmeyi planlıyoruz. Neden? Binlerce yıldır gezegenimize resmen hayat veren güneşin tertemiz enerjisi dururken neden böyle bir zehirle uğraşıyoruz ve nasıl bu kadar zehirli bir şeyi oluşturabildik?

2005 yılında, Çernobil felaketinden 19 yıl sonra, Birleşmiş Milletler’in yayınladığı rapora göre Çernobil’in sadece 50 kişiyi öldürdüğü ve çoğu çocuk olan 4 bin kişinin de tiroit kanseri olmasına yol açtığı belirtiliyor. Doktorlar ve biyologlardan oluşan bir orduysa, 9 milyon kişinin hayatı mahvoldu, 985 bin kişi net öldü, yüzde 250 hasarlı doğum oranı arttı diyor ve dünyanın en büyük otoritesi olan, kolları dünyanın tüm ülkelerine uzanan Birleşmiş Milletler ise 50 kişi öldü diyor. Otoriteler artık insanlık için çalışmıyor.

Gorbaçov yazdığı günlüğünde der ki, Rusya’nın çöküşünün nedeni Çernobil’dir, maddi ve manevi girilen hasar o kadar büyüktü ki, hasarı karşılayamadık, parçalanmak zorunda kaldık. Nükleer felaket milletleri bitirir. Peki biz Gorbaçov’dan duymasak nereden bileceğiz Rusya’nın niye çöktüğünü? Bilemeyeceğiz. Çünkü bilmemiz istenmiyor. Bugün Rusya’nın sağlık ve çevre sorunlarıyla baş edebilmesi için gerekli olan miktar ne kadar? 250 milyar dolar. Japonya’ya bakın, Amerika’nın Hiroşima’ya attığı atom bombasından ancak toparlanmışlardı, çok çalışkan oldukları için teknolojileriyle öne geçmişlerdi ki Fukuşima’daki nükleer santralin yıkılması her şeyi değiştirdi, Hiroşima’ya atılan atom bombasından 168 kat daha fazla radyasyon bugün atmosfere ve okyanusa yayıldı. Hâlâ da yayılmaya devam ediyor. Her gün Fukuşima’daki ünitelerden Cesium 137 sızmaya devam ediyor. Peki biz bu kadar önemli bir şeyi neden her gün takip etmiyor ve ne olduğunu haberlerde izlemiyoruz, neden hep birlikte insanlık olarak bu zehri temizlemek için çalışmıyoruz?

Azra Kohen, Pi

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Cesium 137 ✪ Spahn Ranch

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October 17, 2025, AquaStar (USA) Corp of Seattle, WA is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of frozen shrimp imported from Indonesia be

"October 17, 2025, AquaStar (USA) Corp of Seattle, WA is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of frozen shrimp imported from Indonesia because they may have been prepared, packed, or held under conditions whereby they may have become exposed to very low levels of cesium-137 (Cs-137).

None of the aforementioned or below listed product ever tested positive for Cs-137.

No illnesses have been reported to date and this recall is only being issued out of a preponderance of caution.

This recall is being made with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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.

Cs-137 is a man-made radioisotope of cesium. Traces of Cs-137 are widespread in the environment 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.

Consumers with questions may contact AquaStar at 1-800-331-3440."

Product photo is available at the link.

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