FDA reels in radioactive shrimp at Walmart
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:08.1 | Good morning. Today is Wednesday, August 20th. I'm Julie Morgan. Radiation concerns spark a Walmart recall. Manus emerges as an AI rival, and Canva surges in value. |
| 0:22.2 | Walmart has recalled some shrimp products in 13 U.S. states after a shipment of seafood |
| 0:27.6 | tested positive for radioactive contamination. The FDA announced that certain great value |
| 0:33.7 | raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart could be contaminated with cesium 137, a radioactive isotope. |
| 0:41.6 | The recalled shrimp was sold at Walmart locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, |
| 0:47.8 | Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. The FDA said one sample of |
| 0:57.4 | breaded shrimp tested positive for the substance, but this positive sample did not enter U.S. |
| 1:03.2 | commerce. The FDA's investigation is ongoing. The FDA has also added BMS foods of |
| 1:09.7 | Indonesia to a new import alert for chemical contamination to stop products from this firm from coming into the U.S. until the company has resolved the conditions that gave rise to the appearance of the violation. |
| 1:22.9 | That story makes me go back more than a decade to listening to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. |
| 1:28.9 | I wish I could cue that song right now. |
| 1:32.0 | The Chinese founded firm behind AI Innovator Manus revealed it has reached a $90 million annual revenue run rate. |
| 1:39.9 | The company is now headquartered in Singapore. |
| 1:42.8 | Bloomberg reported that a spokesperson for |
| 1:45.0 | Butterfly Effect, the startup that backs Manus's autonomous AI agents, as well as a previous |
| 1:50.8 | product known as Monica, said the amount comprises all sales under its banner and Manus contributes |
| 1:57.4 | by far the most. Manus is now being compared to the most advanced agentic AI models |
| 2:03.2 | developed by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Canva has started an employee's stock sale that values the |
| 2:11.2 | company at $42 billion as of August, which marks a 30% increase from its $32 billion valuation in 2024. |
| 2:20.7 | Bloomberg reported that the employees can sell stock to new and existing investors, |
| 2:26.3 | including major firms like Fidelity Management and Research Company, |
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