Did any of the shrimp have unsafe levels of radioactivity?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Unsafe? No, it was well below any regulations for unsafe dosages. However it was detectable above the average baseline which is valid cause for concern because more contamination could happen. It ended up that there was a steel scrap smelter near the shrimp packing facility that somehow got medical equipment that uses cesium-137 got into the scrap and as it was smelted down, a detectable amount of cesium got released into the air and ended up on the shrimp.
So the shrimp from that place has been being dusted with pollution from a scrap metal smelter this entire fucking time and we only know about this because they managed to accidentally expose themselves. Amazing.
There's a certain level of feces that can legally be in food
Way more than that I’m afraid!
John Morrell, the meat packing company has acceptable levels of animal parts like teeth and hair, cause you can’t always prevent a rat from crawling into the meat grinders!
Here's a link to a Josh Johnson bit about radioactive shrimp!
Josh Johnson has been my favourite thing about the last couple years
He's quite an impressive comic.
Shrimp flavour bomb!