The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.
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?
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.
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
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?
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.
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