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  • 5 months ago
During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the recent recalls of shrimp after bags were found to contain a radioactive isotope.
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00:00I'll say one other thing about fishing. We are now the South Asian nations are now dumping shrimp
00:07on our country. The shrimp is heavily contaminated. We just stopped a shipment that was contaminated
00:14with cesium-157 which is radioactive. They're farming these shrimps and they use bactericides
00:22and antibiotics and all kinds of chemicals and the shrimp are so contaminated the European nations
00:28won't take them so they're dumping them all here and they're putting out of business. We have the most
00:32sustainable highly regulated fishery in the world. What our fishermen do is a good thing and all the
00:40trawlers in the Gulf and Alaska are being shut down because we're getting shrimp dumped here so we have
00:45now increased FDA inspections of shrimp to make sure that Americans are not buying and eating
00:54contaminated shrimp and putting our shrimpers out of business.
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