FDA Warns Against Shrimp Brand, Citing Radioactive Matter (1)

The US Food and Drug Administration has advised the public not to eat a brand of shrimp sold at Walmart Inc. over concerns about radioactive contamination.

The agency told Walmart to pull three lots of raw frozen shrimp sourced from Indonesia after officials detected radioactive Cesium-137 in a shipment that did not enter the US, the FDA said in a statement on Tuesday. The isotope can lead to an elevated risk of cancer through repeated exposure to low doses, though the detected levels were not high enough to cause an acute risk, the FDA said.

The Great Value brand shrimp ...