More companies have recalled certain packages of shrimp products since the Food and Drug Administration announced it was investigating reports of radioactive contamination last month.
One expert in culinary medicine spoke to HuffPost to weigh in on the new development and whether consumers should be concerned.
The FDA initially announced on Aug. 19 that it recommended Walmart recall its Great Value brand frozen raw shrimp with three different lot codes after Customs and Border Protection detected a radioactive isotope known as Cesium-137 in shipping containers at ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah, Georgia. The FDA was then able to confirm the presence of Cs-137 in one sample of breaded shrimp.
The products were processed by P.T. Bahari Makmur Sejati, an Indonesian company doing business as BMS Foods. Since then, more companies have recalled various shrimp products over concerns of potential radioactive contamination.
On Monday, the FDA posted an update that Southwind Foods, LLC, of California had recently expanded its voluntary recall to include more frozen shrimp that was distributed between July 17 and Aug. 8 to retailers, distributors and wholesalers in Alabama, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and Washington state.
