Radioactive Shrimp - No one mentioned the obvious

[MichSwampbuck]

Back in 1986 when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant blew up and created a radioactive air mass with fallout, I began to take iodine supplements that were from the most common source, kelp from the oceans. Now, after Fukushima, I don't take that anymore due to contamination. They should be testing kelp for radioactive iodine that causes thyroid cancer.

[argentus]

We don't get decent shrimp all that often where I live, but when we do it is Red Shrimp from Argentina.   Apparently, the FDA thinks that everything should be recalled.   So, basically, we're all fucked, unless we learn to digest dirt, but only from specific cultured dirt farms that will be owned by rich bureaucrats who live in intermountain Appalacian "Keeps" and "Redoubts".     

Sure hope we get a couple of bags of very expensive Argentine Red Shrimp soon, although the pattern has been for the last three years that anything that is not mainstream doesn't sell, and isn't reordered.  Thus, the great "Saffron and Chili Powder Scarcity" of 2024.

[Sky727]

Kennedy's warning about the Alien effects : https://www.livenowfox.com/news/cesium-1...hn-kennedy

[MichSwampbuck]

Back in 1986 when the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant blew up and created a radioactive air mass with fallout, I began to take iodine supplements that were from the most common source, kelp from the oceans. Now, after Fukushima, I don't take that anymore due to contamination. They should be testing kelp for radioactive iodine that causes thyroid cancer.

I really didn't have to check out my "theory" about iodine 131 being found in kelp from the Pacific Ocean, but I did, and once again, "I told me so".

This one from the NOAA talks about a kelp monitoring program in California back in 2014, and the link to the study is gone now, a pattern I've been noticing with official websites on this subject.

https://seagrant.noaa.gov/help-from-kelp/

Here is a more reasonable quote from the spring of 2012, one year after the disaster.
 

Scientists from California State University, Long Beach tested giant kelp collected in the ocean off Orange County and other locations after the March, 2011 accident, and detected radioactive iodine, which was released from the damaged nuclear reactor.

The largest concentration was about 250-fold higher than levels found in kelp before the accident.

“Basically we saw it in all the California kelp blades we sampled,” said Steven Manley, a Cal State Long Beach biology professor who specializes in kelp.

The radioactivity had no known effects on the giant kelp, or on fish and other marine life, and it was undetectable a month later.

Iodine 131 “has an eight-day half life so it’s pretty much all gone,” Manley said. “But this shows what happens half a world away does effect what happens here. I don’t think these levels are harmful but it’s better if we don’t have it at all.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...rnia-kelp/

But no worries, in about a month, the radioactive iodine will disappear like magic! Except you have to acknowledge that the output of contaminants has continued daily and increased for almost the past 15 years. So after eight days, only half of the radioactive iodine of a single day's output from Fukushima disappears. I'm not doing the math here, but it seems there will be a constant amount that accumulates exponentially.

[BeyondKnowledge]

They may have located the source of the contamination.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/...-125305856

It seems there is an industrial site that is contaminated.

[MichSwampbuck]

They may have located the source of the contamination.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/...-125305856

It seems there is an industrial site that is contaminated.

Sure, nothing wrong with processing food next to a scrap metal recycling and smelter facility. I bet it is an ultra-modern industrial area that has all kinds of activities from multiple industries along with food processing. Sounds like a great deal and a way to keep the profit margins high without all those fees and inspections.

[Kwaka]

They may have located the source of the contamination.

the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency (Bapeten) announced the discovery of radioactive scrap metal containing Cesium-137 at a scrap metal collection site in the Cikande Modern Industrial Area, Serang District, Banten.

Radioactive shrimp issue will not hinder export to US: Minister

One site has been confirmed contaminated with 4 shipping containers testing positive. With over 300 containers returned by the recall, a bit over 1% of the overall catch around Indonesia. If the source of radioactivity was Fukushima, then would expect more of the catch radioactive.

One inconsistency picked up so far is how one news report claimed radioactive containers where delivered to 5 locations. Not a big thing, but is there more to the story than what Indonesia confirms so far with only 4 containers testing positive? 
 

The FDA launched an investigation after U.S. Customs officials detected cesium-137 (Cs-137) — a radioactive form of cesium — in shipping containers carrying the shrimp that were delivered to Los Angeles; Houston; Savannah, Georgia; and Miami.

FDA recalls more bagged, frozen shrimp over possible radioactive cesium contamination

The FDA has been keeping up with this issue, interesting to see how 3 other US based corporations have also taken part in this recall program.

FDA Advises Public Not to Eat, Sell, or Serve Certain Imported Frozen Shrimp from an Indonesian Firm

[BeyondKnowledge]

I just came across this article. The US FDA is now recalling Indonesian spices over the same cesium contamination.

https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/09/26/after-m...pices-too/ 

Now, as at least some of the shrimp was breaded, could the spices be responsible for the contamination? 

The shrimp being more perishable would be shipped faster and now the spices have cought up with them. Also the non breaded shrimp could have been contaminated from using the same packing equipment as the breaded shrimp.

What do we think?

[Kwaka]

What do we think?

Mining is making a mess. Fukushima and other radioactive events are making an impact, but not globally at regulated levels yet.

The sea life die off is still going on in Adelaide a month later. Low tide smells like death with the variety of sea life turning up. Government has no comment. One rumor is the team at Flanders Uni had bad results?