Someone Actually Wants to Eat the Radioactive Shrimp Walmart Just Recalled
- Aug 21, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 24, 2025
When superpowers meet seafood cravings
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Imagine being so committed to finding your superhero origin story that you actively hunt for radioactive food at America's biggest retailer. That's exactly what happened when one brave soul heard about Walmart's Great Value shrimp testing positive for Cesium-137 and thought "finally my chance has arrived". While the FDA frantically issued warnings about Indonesian supplier BMS Foods potentially contaminating frozen shrimp with nuclear isotopes the internet's newest wannabe hero was already planning dinner.
The backstory reads like something from a comic book. US Customs caught shipping containers glowing with Cesium-137 at four major ports including Los Angeles Houston Savannah and Miami. The radioactive levels clocked in at 68 becquerels per kilogram which sounds terrifying until you realize that's way below the FDA's danger threshold of 1200. Still the agency pulled three specific lots of Great Value shrimp from stores across 13 states because apparently even trace amounts of nuclear contamination make regulators nervous.
But our aspiring superhero wasn't fazed by silly things like "potential cancer risk" or "DNA damage from radioactive exposure". They dreamed of sprouting claws developing aquatic superpowers or at minimum becoming really good with cocktail sauce. The FDA's stern warnings about disposing contaminated products immediately only made the forbidden shrimp more appealing.
