The FDA put out a warning. Well clearly there’s another agency that should abolished and be left up to the states.
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There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it. Oh and cesium shrimp. But really, that’s basically it.
Living in the USA in 2025 is like that movie Cabin in the Woods. Basically every conceivable way for the country to end is happening simultaneously, all at once, and even then nobody bet on the radioactive shrimp, not even the maintenance crew. Granted, the reason they didn’t bet on the shrimp is because they all got furloughed by DOGE back in February.
The seafood is radioactive?
@lemmy.zip, if you have to proxy image links, could you please not break them?
I guess they found out when they saw a couple glow in the shark :3
So it’s actually mirelurk meat.
Future canoe will take his chances. Is it green like the chicken?
He has been eating radioactive chicken for years so he is probably immunized
This is perfect for my new seafood diet. It is so simple, I cesium food, I eat ze yum food.
They’re trying to keep all the shrimp powers to themselves
Imagine punching so fast that you create a sonic boom.
They are right to be worried
The FDA said it is working with distributors and retailers that received the shrimp from BMS Foods “to recommend that firms conduct a recall,” according to the press release.
If the FDA is confident enough to warn us about it, why aren’t they forcing a recall?
Has it occurred to you that some people may like eating radioactive shrimp? They should be free to do so!
Honestly, I’m upset at these Big Government Nanny State tactics, trying to scare me into not eating the radioactive shrimp which I’ve heard are actually healthier than regular shrimp.
Can we get DOGE to investigate these guys? Who is bankrolling them to spread misinformation?
Mmm… Spongy jaw…
I fully support any people who want to eat radioactive shrimp to be allowed to eat radioactive shrimp
Do you support their radioactive poop entering the municipal water treatment plant?
The more the merrier.
I assume that people who eat at Walmart eat way wose things on the regular
Radioactive shrimp cured my autism. How dare the LIBERALs try to take away our Freedom Foods! Give me seafood sovereignty or give me death!
Says the EPA limit is 1200Bq/kg, and the shrimp are at 68Bq/kg, so its nowhere near the limit. The way I see it I can eat 17.6kg or 38.8lbs of that shrimp before it hits that limit, and I know those limits are conservative for safety reasons, so I can exceed that without too much concern.
Based on some other limits from the NRC and some very rough math I would be willing to eat up to 98000 pounds of that per year. I’ll play it safe and take about 2000 pounds of free shrimp please.
Why is this even an issue in that case, then?
Makes for a good headline. Radiation is the thing few people understand and most people fear.
I suppose the possibility exists that the number stated is what was found, but if the shrimp was only spot checked then contamination could exist in higher concentrations. Really depends on how it got contaminated which they dont say.
Significantly less than you get from eating one banana.
That would require taking responsibility.
RFK Jr: no guys it’s cool, it’ll make you healthy. It’ll replace vaccines. It’s all natural.
I have seasoned these shrimp personally. They are very high in radiation, just like the healthy sun that bring us all life.
But it says “Great Value” on the package. Which is it?
they do have a great value, but in röntgens
The FDA still exists?
For now
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Has anyone an idea where this contamination comes from? With a half-life of Cs-137 of 30 years, the pretty mild dosage and no knowledge of how long those shrimp were on ice, there are a lot of possible sources without info about the amount of Barium contained or am i wrong?
The shorter the half-life, the more radiation the element is emitting. 30 years is quite short.
I know that, but there are a few things that might have caused this. Mushrooms and boar meat in some areas in Germany are still radioactive from chernobyl
I can’t find anything, but Cs-137 is used in food irradiation, so that’s a possibility.
For those wondering or panicking because they never heard of this, food irradiation is normal and common and a good thing, it’s not typically ionizing radiation that turns something radioactive, it’s more like how microwaves work but the non-heating kind. This was some kind of really rare fuckup.
Microwaves is a bad analogy because so many people equate radio wave “radiation” with nuclear radiation. Even though radio energy is just non-ionizing energy. Microwave ovens, in fact, just blast 2.4GHz (think WiFi) at water molecules, which then vibrate and heat up. Why 2.4? Because it was an ISM band not used for anything in particular. It could run at other frequencies too and the same effect would occur.
Food irradiation is just a step in the food processing process, like washing the food in water. That way, even if you do find a bug on your lettuce, any bad bacteria or parasite that were on the bug are dead.
I am betting more people know how microwaves work in broad strokes than the kinds of radiation used to sterilize food. I know in the early days of microwave ovens there were a LOT of people who had no idea how it worked and thought if you opened the door too soon deadly radiation would leak out like the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark and melt everyone’s faces. Most kids who grew up in those times understood our parent’s concerns were overblown as we all tried microwaving various things for fun.
I think despite the other things our modern society is stupid about, most people get that microwaves are radio waves, because of the prevalence of microwave towers and personal satellite dishes that use microwaves. Meanwhile, barely anyone has any idea what goes on between the carrot fields and walmart grocery bins.
“Radioactive shrimp from Walmart” sounds like good sci-fi.
Joking aside, Walmart is a prolific human rights abuser. People in not only USA, but Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, and China have been reported to have intensive labor exploitation and abuse.
Forced labor, wage theft, sexual harassment, and sweatshop conditions with extremely low pay and long hours are among reports. Also, forced prison labor in Southeast Asia linked to their suppliers, allegations involving Uyghur forced labor in China, … just … ugh.
Well, you can’t make obscenely large profits with ever-increasing rates of increase without those things
