Walmart may remember the radioactive shrimp after the public has warned not to eat

Walmart recalled some of its shrimp products in the United States after radioactive materials were detected in a seafood expedition.

The Food and Drug Administration of the United States (FDA) warned the public not to eat frozen shrimp sold under the label of Great Value de Walmart could have been exposed to a dangerous isotope in shipping containers.

A sample of breaded shrimp has been tested positive for the substance, said the FDA, but this positive sample “has not entered US trade”.

Consumers of 13 American states were advised that shrimp products are sold to throw away all the products recently bought from three lots.

“The health and safety of our customers are always an absolute priority,” Walmart spokesperson for the BBC told. “We have published a sales restriction and deleted this product from our affected stores. We work with the supplier to investigate.”

The spokesperson added that consumers who had bought the recalled products could visit any Walmart location for a full refund.

The shrimp recalled were sold in Walmart locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgie, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginie-Western and the buyers of these states were notified to be caused.

He came from an Indonesian supplier who has since seen a number of shipping containers denied entering the United States, said the FDA.

A positive shipment for caesium-137, the radioactive form of periodic cesium.

The amount contained in the dispatch tested held by the FDA was not enough to make acute damage to consumers, exposure over time could have a high risk of cancer by damaging living cells in the body, said agency officials.

Caesium-137 is manufactured by nuclear reactions and is present in traces in the ground, food and air in the world. It is one of the main sources of influence around Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan.

The FDA said that no Caesium-137 had been detected in the other products it had tested, but warned that it did not exclude contamination.