{"id":74667,"date":"2025-10-09T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/09\/radioactive-shrimp-crisis-indonesia-contaminated-industrial-zone"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:42:55","slug":"radioactive-shrimp-crisis-indonesia-grapples-with-contaminated-industrial-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74667","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Radioactive\u2019 shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain the hazardous isotope Caesium-137<\/p>\n<p>A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which<strong> <\/strong>includes<strong> <\/strong>businesses that export frozen seafood.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, which has prompted emergency decontamination and relocation of residents, follows a contamination scare in the US that was traced back to the Jakarta facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/09\/radioactive-shrimp-crisis-indonesia-contaminated-industrial-zone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain the hazardous isotope Caesium-137A large industrial zone on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce foun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,311,383,1209,156,78,335,2074,47,3416,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-food","category-food-drink-industry","category-food-safety","category-indonesia","category-life-and-style","category-retail-industry","category-seafood","category-us-news","category-walmart","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4947"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74667\/revisions\/74673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}