Even More Shrimp Just Got Recalled Because of Radiation, at More Grocery Stores

Alas, nuclear waste may have seeped into a greater share of delectable sea bugs than initially believed.

On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration said that even more bags of frozen shrimp are being recalled for possible radioactive contamination after another company, Southwind Foods, voluntarily pulled its product.

"I think they're doing the recall as a precautionary approach," Barbara Kowalcyk, director of the Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition Security at George Washington University, told the New York Times.

In an announcement, the California-based company said its recalled shrimp was distributed between July 17 and August 8 to locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia, and Washington state.

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