More Frozen Shrimp Recalled After Possible Radioactive Contamination, Fda Says

Another seafood institution is voluntarily recalling a number of its stiff shrimp products aft a imaginable radioactive contamination, nan Food and Drug Administration said successful a Thursday release.

Southwind Foods, a California company, is recalling a "limited quantity" of its stiff shrimp aft it was perchance exposed to Cesium-137 (Cs-137), "a soft, flexible, silvery-white metallic that becomes liquid adjacent room temperature" utilized for aesculapian devices and gauges, according to nan Environmental Protection Agency.

The recalled products were distributed from July 17 to August 8 to retailers, distributors, and wholesalers successful Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, nan FDA said.

The agency did not opportunity which circumstantial retailers carried nan stiff shrimp aliases really nan Southwinds Foods shrimp were exposed to nan radioactive material.

Brands included successful nan callback are: Sand Bar, Best Yet, Arctic Shores Seafood Company, Great American Seafood Imports Co., and First Street.

The move comes conscionable days aft a akin stiff shrimp callback from nan Indonesian nutrient company, PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia, besides known arsenic BMS Food, and sold astatine Walmarts crossed nan U.S. The FDA said it is actively investigating reports of radioactive vulnerability successful nan shrimp's shipping containers.

Consumers who bought nan recalled stiff shrimp should not eat nan merchandise and should either propulsion it distant aliases return it to nan spot of acquisition for a afloat refund, wellness officials said.

Repeated low-dose vulnerability to Cs-137 tin consequence successful "an elevated consequence of cancer, resulting from harm to DNA wrong surviving cells of nan body," nan FDA said. No illnesses person yet been reported.