Do you buy raw frozen shrimp at Walmart? If so, the Food and Drug Administration is recommending you throw away packages of the retailer’s Great Value brand that were purchased in 13 states because of possible contamination with a radioactive isotope.

The FDA issued an alert Tuesday after the U.S. Customs & Border Protection detected Celsium-137, or Cs-137, in shipping containers at U.S. ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah, and Miami. This radioactive isotope was detected in five different shrimp products from an Indonesian supplier that does business as BMS Foods—though the FDA said no affected shrimp entered the U.S. food supply.

However, because the FDA couldn’t rule out possible contamination, it is cautioning that consumers shouldn’t eat or serve Great Value raw frozen shrimp so

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