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.
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 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.