I thought it went the way of the Dept of Education.

Now what could possibly go wrong?

We've got to stop buying that trashy shrimp.

We’d have to put some money into keeping the US coast clean to get enough shrimp here and it wouldn’t be cheap

Overfishing has been a problem in the past

but not when Trump and the Republicans get through with it.

From Texas to North Carolina. I don't know if you can tell by reading labels like you can in Europe. Food companies fought legislation to require source labeling in the US.

Unless they've changed those rules too. Its been awhile since I bought frozen; we try to buy fresh from local stores that bring it in from the coast. Although who's to say where it REALLY comes from?

Disclaimer: Spiderman is fictitious, this stuff could be dangerous.

I avoid that place like the plague.... Haven't been in one in around 20 years.... Not going to change that pattern...

When Walmart has eaten all the local stores, like The Borg on Star Trek

I was the nice spouse helper That is the ONLY time I ever set foot in a WakMart. Never to return as well.

I think that Cesium from Fukushima was showing up on the US West Coast after the disaster. The nuclear plant still dumps radioactive water into the ocean.

It has a half life of 30 years. Articles I have read don't give any indication of where the radiation comes from. The US did a lot of nuke testing in the pacific islands. That may or may not have released more cesium into the oceans than Fukishima.
Articles that I read had no information about the amount of radiation other than low, or extremely low, not really helpful. Especially since we can detect at smaller and smaller amounts. Same with chemical contamination.

Just when you thought you knew how to avoid E. coli on lettuce….

The radiation kills germs, that shrimp is sterile

I guess dumping millions of tons of radioactive water into the ocean by japan wasn’t a good idea. But I guess other countries have dumped lots of radioactive waste into the ocean also

Is it, for instance, as "dangerous" as say, air pollution, which kills seven million people per year without a whimper of protest.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Lancet Volume 396, Issue 10258, 17–23 October 2020, Pages 1223-1249).

Personally, I'm rather fond of ¹³⁷Cs and often discuss with my son important uses for it.

I happen to be aware of deaths connected with it, but the numbers strike me as vanishingly small.

But anyting that hangs around for that long becomes a constant threat, as opposed to other radioactive isotopes with shorter half lives.

Quote:

If ingested or inhaled, radioactive cesium is absorbed and distributed throughout soft tissues, particularly muscle, due to its similarity to potassium. Once inside the body, Cs-137 continues to emit radiation, increasing the risk of cancer. Internal exposure can cause symptoms similar to external exposure and may lead to reduced male fertility and developmental problems if exposure occurs during fetal development.

The primary long-term concern is an increased risk of cancer due to the internal radiation from the isotope's 30-year half-life. Chronic low-dose exposure can occur from consuming contaminated food or water in affected areas.

As for air polution and other contaminants, I won't diminish the impact of these sources. But Cesium contamination in this case is additive to the impact of air polution. It's not an either or situation; it's both.

All living things contain ⁴⁰K without which they would die, since potassium is an essential element. The polonium in shrimp is a function of the fact that the oceans naturally contain about 4.5 billion tons of uranium, which is in secular equilibrium with polonium, a decay product.

This point was covered some years back, in the post Fukushima brouhaha, when the lives of tuna were being saved by human paranoia over the presence of another isotope of cesium, the more radioactive ¹³⁴Cs in response to another paper written by the authors of this one: N.S. Fisher,K. Beaugelin-Seiller,T.G. Hinton,Z. Baumann,D.J. Madigan, & J. Garnier-Laplace, Evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110 (26) 10670-10675.

The authors of the paper were appalled by the generally stupid media frenzy connected with their previous paper.

From the paper cited:

If you were born after 1945, every fish or other seafood based animal and/or seaweed in sushi you have ever eaten has contained ¹³⁷Cs from the era of open atmosphere nuclear testing. You are nonetheless, even if you have eaten seafood products, still alive.

where the fuck do you get radio active shrimp?? maybe off the coast of Fukashima? geeze

Keep some RadAway nearby, just in case.

Now heats itself.

I get the stuff that's already shelled and cooked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

Caesium-137 (137
55Cs), cesium-137 (US),[7] or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Trace quantities also originate from spontaneous fission of uranium-238. It is among the most problematic of the short-to-medium-lifetime fission products. Caesium has a relatively low boiling point of 671 °C (1,240 °F) and easily becomes volatile when released suddenly at high temperature, as in the case of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and with atomic explosions, and can travel very long distances in the air. After being deposited onto the soil as radioactive fallout, it moves and spreads easily in the environment because of the high water solubility of caesium's most common chemical compounds, which are salts. Caesium-137 was discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg and Margaret Melhase.

Decay
Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years, decaying by beta emission to stable 137Ba. About 94.6% of the decays go to a metastable nuclear isomer of barium: barium-137m (137mBa, Ba-137m) and the remainder directly to the ground state. Barium-137m has a half-life of about 153 seconds; its dropping to the ground state usually (85.1% of all Cs-137 decays) emitting photons having energy 0.6617 MeV; this is responsible for all of the gamma ray emissions in samples of 137Cs.

Health risks
The biological behaviour of caesium is similar to that of potassium[14] and rubidium. After entering the body, caesium gets more or less uniformly distributed throughout the body, with the highest concentrations in soft tissue.[15] : 114  However, unlike group 2 radionuclides like radium and strontium-90, caesium does not bioaccumulate and is excreted relatively quickly. The biological half-life of caesium is about 70 days.[16]

A 1961 experiment showed that mice dosed with 21.5 μCi/g had a 50% fatality within 30 days (implying an LD50 of 245 μg/kg).[17] A similar experiment in 1972 showed that when dogs are subjected to a whole body burden of 3800 μCi/kg (140 MBq/kg, or approximately 44 μg/kg) of caesium-137 (and 950 to 1400 rads), they die within 33 days, while animals with half of that burden all survived for a year.[18]

Important researches have shown a remarkable concentration of 137Cs in the exocrine cells of the pancreas, which are those most affected by cancer.[19][20][21] In 2003, in autopsies performed on 6 children who died in the polluted area near Chernobyl (of reasons not directly linked to the Chernobyl disaster; mostly sepsis), where they also reported a higher incidence of pancreatic tumors, Bandazhevsky found a concentration of 137Cs 3.9 times higher than in their livers (1359 vs 347 Bq/kg, equivalent to 36 and 9.3 nCi/kg in these organs, 600 Bq/kg = 16 nCi/kg in the body according to measurements), thus demonstrating that pancreatic tissue is a strong accumulator and secretor in the intestine of radioactive caesium.[22] Accidental ingestion of caesium-137 can be treated with Prussian blue (FeIII4[FeII(CN)6] 3), which binds to it chemically and reduces the biological half-life to 30 days.[2

... that are completely ignored because they are not so easy to detect.