Radioactive Shrimp

"could turn you into an alien," warns Sen. John Kennedy

Adeola Adeosun reported for Newsweek, “The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Sunday [09/21/25] that AquaStar (USA) Corp of Seattle has recalled approximately 85,000 bags of shrimp products sold at major grocery chains nationwide due to potential contamination with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope. . . . The FDA announced no illnesses have been reported to date, but the contamination poses potential long-term cancer risks through repeated exposure.” The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) warns that this isotope “can cause DNA damage and increase cancer risks through repeated exposure.”

Perhaps to get people to pay attention to the warning, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) made an amusing, attention-grabbing video about the recall and the shrimp.

Senator John Kennedy said in the video, “This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien. This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw frozen shrimp being sent to the United States by other countries. It was being sold under the Walmart label called the Great Value label. If you eat it how could you end up looking like the alien in the Alien? Because the shrimp was radioactive. . . . It has a radioactive isotope called Cesium 137. It will kill you even if it doesn't turn you into the alien. If you eat this stuff, I guarantee you'll grow an extra ear.”

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