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.
At this point the most surprising part of all of this is that a federal agency was permitted to do something beneficial to regular people.
You’re telling me a shrimp decayed this atomic nucleus?
So this is how we persue larger and larger unit sized shrimp?
But seriously, how the fuck?
I’m trying to imagine the factory that both prepares shrimp and handles nuclear waste… it just does not make sense…
It’s called diversifying, sweetie
The U.S. imports between 1.7-2 billion pounds of shrimp a year. That’s a lot more than I expected. Someone is eating a lot more shrimp than I am.
It’s me.
Imagine being bitten by a radioactive shrimp
If it’s a pistol shrimp then I could become the real life One Punch Man.
Shrimp-man, Shrimp-man, does whatever Shrimp-man can…
This got me thinking about being bit by a radioactive shrimp and getting powers like Spider-man. Not sure what powers I’d even get, I already have the shrimp dick.
Pistol shrimp bite would turn you into One Punch Man or Woman.
Weird we didn’t ever have this happen before
Imagine all the times it did happen and we just didn’t know. I don’t need this to be proud to not ever set for in a Walmart though.
There was a concern of radioactive shrimp after Fukushima, but you’d have to have been collecting shrimp right near the nuclear plant, and I believe they still would have been safe to eat
So how does this happen? Did they use shipping containers to transport radioactive waste? And then just said fuck it its good?
So many brands from exactly the same supplier. The American illusion of choice.
Teenage Mutant Samurai Shrimp
“Nuclear is the way” “Fukushima was nothing, it was all media drama” sigh… I’m surprised this hasn’t happened earlier… Or it has but no one’s been measuring it… Where can I buy one of those radioactivity measuring devices? I would like to keep eating fish and seafood at least for a few years longer…
