International nuclear safety officials say that contaminated minerals at an industrial site in Indonesia may be a source of radioactive materials that led to huge summonses of the imported frozen shrimp, as efforts to stop more shipments restricted to the United States.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday that officials are in constant contact with the Indonesian nuclear organizers who discovered Cesium 137, a radiant counterpart, in a processing factory that sent millions of firds of shrimp to the United States
“Initial information indicates that it may have arisen from activities in the metal melting facility in the same industrial site or from getting rid of the scrap scrap to other areas of the site,” said Friedrich Dal, spokesman for the International Energy Agency, in an e -mail.
Federal officials said that no American investigators had been sent to the site in Sirang, west of Jakarta.
Meanwhile, the company that released the shrimp, PT Bahari Makmur Sejati, also called BMS Foods, summoned more than 300 shipping containers already on its way to the United States.
American Food and Drug Administration Be careful last month Cesium 137 was detected in shipping containers sent to four American ports, and in a sample of imported frozen shrimp. Which motivated many recovery operations for the shrimp sold in Wal Martfor Kruger And other stores.
This week, additional calls were released by Tampa Maid Foods LLCFrom Florida, for the shrimp hidden butterfly sold under the admiral of the fleet, Patco Seafood Classic and other stickers.
The FDA (FDA) said that any of the shrimp that led to a notice or a positive test for Cesium -137 was released for sale. The agency said that other shipments sent to stores may have been manufactured under conditions that allowed the products pollution.
FDA officials (FDA) said the danger appears small, but the shrimp can pose a “possible health concern” for people exposed to low levels of Cisium -137 over time.
The Food and Drug Administration issued Import alert For the shrimp from BMS Foods to prevent products from reaching the United States
The company sent about 12 million pounds of US ports to the United States ports in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami and Savana, Georgia, in July and August, according to American customs protection records and borders obtained by a genius import company, a company for commercial data analysis.
CPB officials have alerted the FDA to the potential radioactive pollution of multiple shipping containers. A spokesman for the US Department of Energy said that the National Nuclear Security Administration had sent emergency teams on “multiple publishing operations” “to isolate and describe the extent of Cesium 137 pollution.
The level of Cesium -137 discovered in the frozen shrimp was about 68 bicrake per kilogram, a measure of radioactive activity. This is much lower than the level of the 1200 bicrake food and drug management that can lead to the need for healthy protection.
“It is unusual to see that the concentration of Cesium 137 is in the shrimp.”
Peopleski said that pollution could have come from recycling old medical equipment containing Cesium 137. The substance was used in medical devices to reduce blood pollution and cancer treatment, for example.
When this equipment is no longer useful, it can be recycled. But if Cesium -137 is not properly removed, radioactive materials can be released in the environment.
“If it is broken in a kind of cracking mechanism, it suddenly, it is basically salt,” Peopleski said. “It would be as if you were taking giant salt and spreading it all over the kitchen floor.”
He said that containing pollution is essential, and it requires experts who have training and experience to respond.
“It should be tracked, isolated and cleaned,” said Peneski.
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