Overview

• Southwind Foods is voluntarily recalling a limited quantity of frozen shrimp distributed July 17 through Aug. 8 to retailers, distributors, and wholesalers in nine states.
• Recalled items were sold under the Sand Bar, Best Yet, Arctic Shores, Great American, and First Street brands.
• Customs and FDA checks detected Cesium-137 in shipping containers at four U.S. ports and in a sample linked to PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia.
• The FDA has placed BMS Foods on an import alert for chemical contamination, blocking new entries as investigators trace distribution and work with Indonesian authorities.
• No illnesses have been reported, and consumers are advised not to eat recalled shrimp and to discard or return it; reported readings near a flagged shipment were about 68 Bq/kg, well under the 1,200 Bq/kg federal intervention level, though long-term repeated exposure remains the concern.