FDA warns against consuming certain Walmart frozen shrimp due to radioactive contamination concerns

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has advised consumers to avoid eating specific bags of frozen raw shrimp sold at Walmart due to concerns about unsanitary conditions and potential radioactive contamination.

The advisory follows the detection of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 in samples of breaded shrimp from the same Indonesian supplier, BMS Foods, during port inspections. Although the contaminated shipments were prevented from entering the U.S. market, the FDA is urging caution regarding the Great Value brand raw frozen shrimp from the same supplier. The agency stated that the product “appears to have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with Cs-137.”

The detected levels of cesium-137 were 68 be