FDA warns against eating certain shrimp sold at Walmart

[Razor]

FYI, the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urged the public not to eat certain bags of frozen raw shrimp sold at Walmart, citing concerns about unsanitary conditions andradioactive contamination found in shipments from the same supplier.

The FDA said that a radioactive isotope, cesium-137, was detected in a sample of breaded shrimp detained at US ports – in Los Angeles, Houston, Savannah, and Miami – from an Indonesian supplier named BMS Foods.

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/08/19/heal...mp-walmart-fda

[Smoker_Boy]

Gee, what a good reason to quit buying food not harvested in the US and Canada.
Talking live food here, not bananas or avocados.

[Panhead John]

Anytime I’ve found shrimp from Indonesia or Vietnam, it goes back in the bin. I try to stay with Gulf shrimp whenever possible.

[Finster]

For home use I go with the Wild Caught Argentine shrimp from Costco.
It you can’t trust Costco who can you trust 🤷🏼♂️
Ordering shrimp in a restaurant is a crapshoot but I don’t do that very often so maybe I’m safe 🤔

[Ace]

Radioactive isotope, cesium-137. Dirty bomb shrimp. What's next???

[klflowers]

Just one more reason not to buy food at Walmart. Cleaning supplies, cheap electronics, deodorant yes. Food no. IMO anyway.

[Spinaker]

PSA

[Andrrr]

Did you take that at Taco Bell?

[Spinaker]

Very possible 😂

[mrteddyprincess]

Makes me want to borrow the Geiger counter from school and take a trip to the Walmart seafood section.

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

I think people would be shocked at the amount of things that would ping.

[dpearce]

I'd pay to see that.

[Donw]

When I was at Hopkins they were closing all the Civil Defense shelters and throwing out everything. I snagged a few Geiger counters and then went on a binge for a week or two to find things that were radioactive. Stupid but fun.

[dpearce]

No one in my house eats much seafood, especially shrimp (which I love to eat), so I never get the ok to buy any.

Plus we rarely buy food from Wally World. Wife can't stand the lines, doesn't care for a lot of their generic stuff, and gets frustrated with people blocking entire aisles having loud conversations.

But it's good to know about foreign shrimp. Had no idea, but I'll definitely pay attention if I'm ever allowed to buy it!

[Panhead John]

300 lbs and 6 kids in tow?

[dpearce]

Panhead John - Yes, and yes. Usually. Wearing spandex. I mean, torturing spandex.

[Alan Brice]

Kim n I just look at each other n say "sausage," in falsetto.

[58limited]

Me to the waiter at my next restaurant meal: "I'll have the Chernobyl special please."

[CaptainMike]

It would never occur to me to buy shrimp or fish, atomic or not, from Walmart.

[Finster]

I’ll just go ahead and assume that gas station sushi is a no go as well?

[cruiseplanner1]

I buy no seafood from WalMart however do get my shrimp from Sams Club. Will have to watch them.

[jayjordan]

Anytime I’ve found shrimp from Indonesia or Vietnam, it goes back in the bin. I try to stay with Gulf shrimp whenever possible.

Gulf of Mexico. Beware of "gulf" shrimp that comes from gulfs in other oceans.

[Panhead John]

For sure!

[smokenoob]

and grouper….. Vietnamese grouper 🙄 you have to ask if it’s “Gulf Grouper”
and I can hear it now….. it’s Gulf Vietnamese grouper 🙄😂

[Purc]

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+2 on Gulf Shrimp labels.

[jfmorris]

I only bought wild caught anymore - from Gulf of America/Mexico or the Argentina Red's. I refuse any farmed fish or shrimp, aside from US farmed catfish.

[Jerod Broussard]

I think people are missing out on the opportunity to live 180 years by not eating these things.

[Donw]

If a radioactive spider could create Spiderman, imagine what thousands of radioactive shrimp could create from Wally World shoppers. 😳🤯😱

[wu7y]

From the photos of "Walmartians" I see on the internet I think it already has.