U.S. food safety officials have issued multiple warnings over the past five weeks about shrimp on supermarket shelves that could be radioactive. But this week has seen even more recalls than usual, with four new warnings for various brands of shrimp since Sunday.

The latest recalls are for shrimp from Lawrence Wholesale, Southwind Foods, and AquaStar, distributed across the country in enough forms to make Bubba from Forrest Gump proud: frozen raw shrimp, shrimp skewers, cooked shrimp, and cocktail shrimp.

The shrimp recalls started last month after Great Value frozen raw shrimp sold at Walmart was flagged for potentially being contaminated with Cesium-137. The Cs-137 found in that shrimp measured 68 Bq/kg, below the standard for federal intervention, which sits at 1200 Bq/kg. But officials were still concerned because prolonged exposure to small amounts of radiation can lead to health problems.

The cause of the potential contamination in all these shrimp is still unclear, though the FDA warns the shrimp was potentially packaged and prepared in “unsanitary conditions.” No product that’s reached supermarket shelves has yet tested positive for Cs-137, according to the FDA. You’ll notice all the FDA warnings say “may have become contaminated.”

But that didn’t stop Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, who recently took to the floor of the Senate to warn that eating all this shrimp will turn you into an “alien from the movie Alien.” Seriously.

Here’s the full list of shrimp to look out for:

AquarStar shrimp at over a dozen retailers

On Sunday, Sept. 21, the FDA issued a recall for three different kinds of AquaStar shrimp:

• 49,920 bags (2-pound) of Kroger Raw Colossal EZ Peel Shrimp
• 18,000 bags (2-pound) of Kroger Mercado Cooked Medium Peeled Tail-Off Shrimp
• 17,264 bags (2-pound) of AquaStar Raw Peeled Tail-on Shrimp Skewers

The shrimp was sold in 32 states between June 12, 2025 and September 17, 2025 at:

• Baker’s
• City Market
• Dillons
• Food 4 Less
• Foodsco
• Fred Meyer
• Fry’s
• Gerbes
• Jay C
• King Soopers
• Kroger
• Mariano’s
• Metro Market
• Pay Less Supermarkets
• Pick ‘n Save
• Ralphs
• Smith’s
• QFC

AquaStar shrimp at Food Lion

On Tuesday, the FDA also issued a new recall for 8,000 bags of AquaStar Raw Peeled Tail-on Shrimp Skewers sold in Food Lion stores between July 7, 2025, and Sept. 20, 2025.

The states where that shrimp was sold:

• Delaware
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia
• West Virginia

Lawrence Wholesale shrimp at Kroger

Another recall issued Tuesday by the FDA involves Lawrence Wholesale shrimp sold at Kroger. The bagged frozen shrimp and cocktail shrimp includes best-by dates in April and May of 2027, with the full lot codes available on the federal agency’s website.

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• Ohio
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

Southwind Foods

Still another recall was issued Tuesday for a wide variety of shrimp brands distributed by Southwind Foods between June 24 and September 16, 2025.

The full list can be found in a PDF from the FDA’s website with full lot listings and product weight specifics, but the brands include:

• Arctic Shores
• Best Yet
• First Street
• Great American
• Kroger
• Master Catch
• Phosphate Free IQF Tovala
• Sand Bar
• Winco

Paris Martineau, a journalist at Consumer Reports, commented on how rapid the recalls were coming this week.

Again, the FDA isn’t claiming that any of this shrimp is definitely radioactive. And the American Nuclear Society notes that the 68 Bq/kg reading found last month is similar to the radiation levels found in bananas. It’s just not the kind of thing you want repeated exposure to, especially since the radiation in bananas (potassium-40) is natural, and Cesium-137 only exists because we decided to usher humanity into the nuclear age in 1945.

But it’s probably better to be safe than sorry.