The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope
Alternate headline: Don't eat shrimp from Walmart.
I thought they shut down the FDA? The FDA needs to MYOB, I can eat radioactive shrimp if I want to! I’m American, I got rights! /s 🙄
Dumpster dive behind participating walmarts!
FREEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDOOOOM!
And wash it down with raw milk!
RFK Jr: Making America healthy again, one radioactive isotope at a time...🤦♀️
Lol. You win the internet today.
😄😅 ...said every MAGA fool ever!
i could see someone like mr beast holding a challenge where they sample very expensive radioactive shrimp for $1 million each and they all get tongue warts like a month later
I like where this is heading! Somebody’s going to be YouTube Famous! With tongue cancer!
Boom.
How...does that happen? HOW? 😆
Maybe RFK Jr got an answer
woooooohooooooo!!! maybe we can have super shrimp powers!! 🤣🤣😂😐😭😱
Chow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve.
Eha Wut?
You can eat, you just need to wait 70,000 years
“Only” a few hundred years for this particular radionuclide
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This is the funniest post I've seen in a long time.
that's what freezers are for
ROFL
[quick google] Where are we at on barium-137 though?
So uh who's gonna let themselves get bitten by a radioactive shrimp. Maybe we can get a shrimpman to save us all in this horrid world
cool i wanna but some
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Did not have Radioactive Shrimp on my bingo card for 2025.
My deepest shrimpathies
Bah! The FDA has no fucking idea what is going on. They don’t have any actual scientists working there anymore.
I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones Enough to make my system blow Welcome to the new age, to the new age Welcome to the new age, to the new age Whoa-oh-oh, oh, oh, whoa-oh-oh, oh, oh Shrimp's radioactive, radioactive
Stop shopping at Walmart, use small local grocery stores.
best citrus-free ceviche out there
Looks lethal even without being radioactive.
Why do you need regulations when you can have radioactive shrimp (or prawns)?
this is why I don't buy meat from Walmart
Pescatarians next week:
Will I gain super powers?! 🤔
Cinnamon Toast Shrimp Tails, meet Radioactive Shrimp.
This, my friends, is why we need to fund government & not give tax cuts to the rich! Please explain this to any #Republican you know! #Health #Science #FDA
I am never eating sea food again. Full period. Not until we stopped producing nuclear waste an piling it up or rather straight up throwing it out into the sea. Fuck Us.
Strange, you’d think this current government would endorse eating raw & frozen shrimp with radiation in it.
RFK jr: *Enthusiastic gargle*
“Yes, Bobby, you may have another serving of raw, frozen shrimp with radiation. Don’t let us stop you.”
“RFK Jr. touts health benefits of raw, radioactive Walmart shrimp after personally consuming 27 pounds of product.”
Blinky the three eyed fish.
RFK Jr would eat it.
Glad I don't eat 🦐
Funny how anti-vaxxers listen to THESE scientists. Why don’t they just buy more and eat all the shrimp so they can build a healthy tolerance? That doesn’t work?? You don’t say…
Definitely "Great Value" in the sense of getting more than you paid for...
Radioactive shrimp was not on my 2025 bingo card
Don’t eat anything from Walmart
Radioactive shrimp were not on my bingo card.
With the job cuts going on what happens when FDA stops these warnings?
Is it from Fukushima, or the Bikini Atolls?
Surprised they're even telling us
Would eating it give one super powers? Is this the origin story of Prawnman ?
Remember the Japanese nuclear meltdowns? It only takes 30,000 years to clean it up.
Cobalt 60 is the same way, It's bad now. Used in Cancer killing equipment due to it's lethality. Also used in Salted Nukes for the same reason. 200 yr minimum for humans to visit for a while. Hours. Just floating around in the atmosphere giving people cancer. Don't forget those 928 detonations in Nv
Strontium-90 It has a 29-year half-life, which means that it can take hundreds of years to decay to what some would say was a negligible level. Exposure in water and food may increase bone cancer and leukemia. ( This element loves getting into people's bones! ) Resulting from above ground testing.
Counterpoint: bsky.app/profile/hulc...
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Who can trust anything that comes out of the FDA now? I will take my chances with radioactive shrimp rather than radioactive recommendations from RFK
This aquaman reboot sucks shit.
I assume whoever issued this warning is being fired from the FDA and replaced with someone from the radioactive isotope industry.
“ Maybe it’s not healthy but you are glowing, more shrimp?”
How??
Go vegan
OMG that was not about it.. now there's Radioactive Isotope shrimp!!!!
🤣
Damn.
So we get a batch of new Mutants to save the world. Usually some powers reflect the personality... so MAGA, could be SuperAssholeMan or woman?
Forget about the shrimp. Why had cesium-137 been in the containers beforehand? AFAIK it can be used to make dirty bombs.
Is that from the nuked water dumped in the oceans from Fukishima?
PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati, Indonesian food company. A bit stunning that total skepticism is honest first reaction to any press release from trump/rfkj's FDA. Is this another tariff? What are they really about w/this message? And cesium is just rolling around in containers now? Dirty bomb prep?
OK there's also radioactive wasps. this year is just awful.
Explains a lot.
You know RFK is eating the fuck out of these.
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WOKENESS IS WHEN NO RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES!!!!
Shrimpman, Shrimpman, does whatever a shrimp can
OMG! And Trump Administration Food and Drug doesn't feel it necessary to inspect foods that are sold here. Who knows what's going to happen with someone's health that has already consumed this shrimp????????????? I wish I was younger. I would grow all my food on my property. At least I'd stay alive
The scary part of anything coming from FDA is I already don’t trust information coming from the trump administration. Not that I’d eat shrimp anyway… but it pertains to pretty much everything his rancid cabal says.
Got that V 💪
Well HELLO, super-powers! Finally
Most likely just cancer. 🤷🏼♂️
The radioactive shrimp gotta be biloxi’s minor league team name
Another RFK Jr special. Yum.
It's only in like 6 states, it's not all states and all Walmarts.
Lucky you still have the FDA…
did a whistleblower leak this? or it it an actual press release from the FDA, because it must be really really bad if the trump administration is letting them release this
No one is getting radiation burns or radiation sickness from this level of Cs-137. The problem would be mutagenesis and cancer in the long term due to exposure of soft tissues to ionizing radiation from ingested Cs 137. Cs tends to accumulate in milk so nursing mothers should be extra cautious.
So.... It's SAFE in municipal Waste? Not a good idea, either. Send it back to Walmart
Nope. Should be separated from normal waste as it's an element, is mobile and acts like potassium in cells so enters the food chain. However, it has only a 30 year half life, so it can be stored until it decays sufficiently (~150 years -- as opposed to some isotopes which take thousands of years).
if the shrimp is radioactive what does that mean for the rest of the walmart
Only in America. This is what you get when you don't have any food safety regulations.
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What the actual fuck?
Send Kennedy Jnr 2 boxes of it.
Don’t have to pay Sam Altman to see atoms colliding.
You want Zoidberg? Because that's how you get Zoidberg
Heres a Geiger counter with your shrimp cocktail. Enjoy.
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But we can get superpowers… 😂
Doh!!
target's boycott was earned but walmart has ALWAYS been a problem, why they started getting that target money is beyond me
Thats a big problem with boycotts when we live in hell
Are we winning yet?
bsky.app/profile/laur...
How does this happen?
Walmart sucks and doesn't give a shit about its workers?
RFK Jr. will eat it.
Well now,let's consider the possibility of gaining super powers from eating it.
Made a spontaneous purchase of an unhinged novelty mug off Tiktok about a year ago. Think I should serve some shrimp cocktail out of it or is it too soon??
Pretty nails!💞 And, why wait? Stupid Hitler 2.0 might drop some full on nukes on our head so what's a little radioactivity?☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️
Why not? My immune system can handle it.
So…. Where did this come from and how did it get into the shrimp? Are they prawns now?
Better than Godzilla I guess?
I always thought Godzilla was just misunderstood. Mothra, however, was bad news.
But shrimp taste better is what I intended. Godzilla is gamey.
Absolutely.
Mothra sent out the warning! The news is bad all by itself.
Half-life of 30 years; most likely from Fukushima.
Fukushima?
Are we supposed to eat these instead of taking vaccines?
@juhbugbug.bsky.social você à frente do seu tempo, como sempre
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Good thing I don't shop there anymore.
Do you want Godzilla? Because this is how you get Godzilla.
I'm most surprised that we still have an FDA and that it hasn't been turned into a crypto mining business...yet.
It has been hard to distinguish The Onion articles and the rest of the mainstream media lately.
“Listen up liberals, we’re poisoning the food supply”
East Coast cities ship their trash to.... Arkansas. Take THAT, Walmart
This is good because the previous issue older shoppers had with them was "I don't buy anything from China!" when they actually came from Vietnam.
What 😭
🙄🇺🇸 Would not of happened under Biden it's Trumps FDA now 😉
If the current regimes FDA is putting out the warning, it must be bad.
Surprisingly, no bsky.app/profile/hulc...
Must have been contaminated by someone from RFKjr's office!
In modern times we somehow allow radioactive isotopes and food products to interact. Good job, humans. Very efficient system.
Shopping at Walmart is known to expose shoppers to random shooters. Being exposed to potentially radioactive seafood is another risk factor for shoppers at Walmart. ☠️
@ futurecanoe
OMG I ate that shit
How the F did this happen?
Good chance for 80's rock supergroup The Firm to revive their hit song "Radioactive"
thank goodness I don't eat shellfish anymore
I’d avoid their rotisserie chickens too. My dog and I both got terrible food poisoning last week.
How neat is that??
Beware of Shrimpium 238. Way more lethal than the 235 isotope.
I’m getting to the stage where I’m afraid to eat!
So long as you're making informed decisions about your food, you should be fine. Besides, the effects will most likely be benign, and they've already flagged it, to have it squared away. Even an administration as fucked up as this one still has to maintain an image with the general public. 🫂🧡🦝
I’m also afraid to eat because people don’t wash their hands. I watch. It’s gross.
Yeah, u right about that! Servers are legally required to wear gloves & wash their hands throughly prior to serving any kind of food, and depending upon what the size of your household is, you might be safe simply preparing your food from home.
this is what I do almost exclusively. it's cheaper, and you know exactly what you put in there!
But Microplastics are now unavoidable in all foods. In addition to what people generally understand by the term, tire wear was and is a cause. We eat the equivalent of one credit card per year. Adults now have a teaspoonful of in their brains.
and that was before today!
I've thought of drop shipping from europe (?!) and talking to local farmers
What the fk?
this is how Shrimp Jesus becomes real
Didn’t have “radioactive frozen shrimp from Walmart” on my bingo card
It was my favorite “vs Godzilla” flick from the 70’s.
Sure, why not. Any day now the 3 headed dragon should be attacking.
So it glows in the dark, big whoop.
Wal-Mart, a new immersive experience by Meow Wolf
Recall? Ffs
That’s certainly a glowing review!
Don’t let the Woke FDA tell you what shrimp red blooded Americans can and cannot eat STFU and eat every last shrimp in your local Walmart
I know people hate to see stuff like this, but this is an indication that the system is working and catching stuff. Give it two years and we'll reminisce on the good old days when we were warned what's in our food
this feels like a joke from an adult cartoon to look at. lovelove love this sm this is great. this sucks.
Yeah I bet you'd get lousy powers once you eat these and turn into Shrimp-Man
PSA 🚫🍤
I didn't have Radioactive Shrimp anywhere on my Bingo card! 🍤
Yikes! ☢️
MAHA is very successful.
The most surprising news is that FDA is still functioning as it should be after all the 3,500 staff laid off.
was it luck? On that finding ☢️ ?
But WHAT are they missing?? And how too-late will it be, when we find out?
Agree. But will the people at FDA who shared the warning be fired today? 😭
Good point!
To the surprise of no one, RFK Jr. promotes radioactive shrimp. “With electricity costs skyrocketing, glowing is really helpful”
This is the bad place
🧑🍳 💋 No notes.
Well, if it glows in the dark, that might be helpful?
www.fda.gov/food/alerts-...
How did the ship get contaminated in the first place?
Ohhhh i dont know if we really wanna know
This from the country that accuses Britain of having poor food standards 🤷🙄
The UK: Food looks awful, often tastes awful, is safe to eat The US: Looks good, tastes good, is often very dangerous to eat
Sounds about right.
Though you often can't tell with the latter until you wind up on the toilet.
Or in hospital, saying goodbye to your retirement fund.
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The Bubba Trump Shrimp Co.
Geiger counters on sale at Amazon, for as low as $56.98! a.co/d/40EQ5U6
I think "don't eat shrimp from Walmart" goes without saying.
It’s my birthday and this is my kaiju fever dream😂
Interesting, but what is source of Cesium-137? It's not this.
Now, how can this be "great value" when they'll send you to the hospital for cancer treatment/radiation poisoning. Imagine UnitedHealthcare & consider THE COST SAVINGS... I wonder if RFK JR can work a Geiger counter... -ONE.💯
youtu.be/vJao1u2uBqY
SINGS LOUDLY, I FEEL IT IN MY BONES... !!! -ONE.💯
I work in the radiation field an love this song!
It on sale this week!
Junior will get to the bottom of this ! He will fire whom ever leak this report! They will be reprimanded for there actions! Thank you for your attention to this matter. RFKjr.
Yes JR sure will! GEIGER COUNTER & ALL! He'll swim in a pool of RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION! As for Walmart, THINK OF THE COST SAVINGS!!! www.walmart.com/browse/food/... -ONE.💯😂😂😂
YOU THINK IT AIN'T!? -ONE.💯😂😂😂
Are we getting Kaiju? 😍 Given the state of things thus far this year, giant, acid breathing shrimp ramaging US cities would be a pleasant distraction. 🏦🔥🏢🏨💥🦐⛪️🏢🏫🔥
Radioactive Man!
But what if it gives you superpowers?…
RFK Jr says 'STOCK UP!'
Radioactive Isotope? In this Trump Economy?? @phillewis.bsky.social
turmp always gives more than you asked for! “87% more radioactive isotopes, ABSOLUTELY FREE!”.
87%? Try 700, 800, 500 or 1500%
Can it get any better?!?! I’m so excited!
Raw milk counteracts the effects though
Hahaha. Good one.
(Taps temple) Can’t die from radiation sickness if I die from salmonella poisoning first!
GREAT VALUE! FREE CANCER WITH EVERY PURCHASE!! Seems like all of America these days eh.
Great value. Isotopes come free!!!
Does it still need to be washed before cooking? 🤔
(Yes, I know Pepe is a king prawn rather than a shrimp.)
This gives a whole new meaning to "secondary burn".
Nothing to see here- just some people might already be radioactive like in the Simpsons
Are we sure this isn’t just a special order from RFK Jr for some of his favorite “hot”shrimp that got mixed in with the food supplies for us peasants?
Okay, make that two reasons why I don’t shop at Walmart.
But I was told many times that regulations were tyranny because companies would be extra sure they weren't selling dangerous products. 🤔
I'm sure RFK JR is good with it. Sell it
ITS FINALLY HAPPENING FOR ME
This is a superhero origin story waiting to happen.
Thanks for the information; I did not have that on my bingo card for this year.
So is someone smuggling nuclear materials in shrimp? 🍤
if you are buying shrimp at Walmart you are already doing it wrong....
Leaking scuttled nuclear subs. Just great.
Not a problem I haven’t set foot into a Walmart since they donated to Trump
The Nanny State still telling me what to do with my own body? I thought Bobby K shut down that jobs program at the Federal Diaper Agency. I'll have you know, it's my God-given right to eat a Cesium-137 cocktail with or without horseradish sauce, and gov't can pry it off my very cold, very tiny fork.
If you eat three you will be fine. If you eat five you will get cancer. If you eat four? Spider-man powers.
shrimp allergies stay winning
Oh.
These shrimp get glowing reviews.
good god
I wouldn't buy shrimp at Walmart in any case. Here in TX, we have a Walmart killer. HEB. And they're going straight at Walmart. For example, this new HEB is right across the street from a Walmart Superstore... www.mysanantonio.com/business/art...
Manor gave Walmart a 10-year exclusive. The 10 years is up, and now HEB is out to sink Walmart in Manor. I lived in Manor during the pandemic, when the coming HEB was just a rumor. Manor residents are frickin' thrilled that they're getting an HEB. HEB is going to kick Walmart's ass. Easily.
What the hell is a bag of shrimp doing near a radioactive isotope?
Have you ever wonder why McDonald fries never decompose & slowly turns into plastic?
My dog, who eats cat 💩 for treats, won’t touch a McDonald’s French fry.
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Wow 😮
So I don't remember much from food microbiology but they did talk about using radioactive materials of some kind to kill microbes and parasites in shrimp. The radioactive material isn't supposed to actually come into physical contact with the shrimp itself though.
It’s true that food irradiation doesn’t make food radioactive. Contamination from a cesium-137 source used in food irradiation, however, could cause something like this. It is very unlikely but could occur in very negligent conditions with systemic safety & monitoring failures on the part
of the company & regulators imo. The amount of Cs contamination that was detected on the shrimp isn’t a substantial threat to health by itself, but the fact that it’s there at all tells us that the conditions the shrimp were stored or processed in are not fit for products for human consumption.
Pretty much sums up WalMart.
The US maintains a system of radiation detectors at ports of entry specifically because other countries may fail to maintain radiological safety and control. So, while this should have never gotten so far as to be detected at the port, the US side of radiological safety is working as intended here.
It sounds like the food already hit the shelves, though, instead of being stopped at the port.
“At this time, no product that has tested positive or alerted for Cesium-137 (Cs-137) has entered the U.S. commerce. FDA is working with distributors and retailers that received product…after the date of first detection of Cs-137… from shipments that did not alert for Cs-137”
Well that's good. This is just about being extra cautious then, I guess.
Yeah, the caution is warranted imo, but it’s probable no one in the US has actually been harmed imo. By the Cs anyway. The recall also mentions that the Cs detection indicates the conditions it was handled & stored in aren’t up to food safety standards.
Of course not detected isn’t the same as not contaminated; no way to know for sure until more of it is intercepted and tested. But Cs is easy to detect in very small amounts (it releases strong and characteristic gamma waves) when you’re looking for it and have the right equipment.
Yay Europe still has better food standards
And the FDA appears to be taking this seriously and investigating the failures that made it possible for radioactive cesium to come into contact with food.
I’m sure there’s no connection between these shrimp and the primary isotopes that have been leaking from Fukushima for 14 years and continue to leak today. Right?
Who knows?
They don't want you eating the green glowing hulk shrimp because it's delicious
Because Spiderman is cool, but Shrimpboy is just sad and weird.
So, where did the caesium 137 come from?
It gets a glowing recommendation from me…
Uh .. say WHAT? "If you have ... purchased ... shrimp from Walmart that matches this description, *throw it away,"* the FDA said... Radioactive Waste is a hazardous material.. why should ANYONE put it in municipal waste? Send it BACK... to Walmart. They should have vetted the source better.
is this a kaiju origin story?
So how did it get contaminated in the first place?