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How the US ended up with radioactive shrimp and sneakers from Indonesia
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Contamination from radioactive particles has raised doubt about Indonesia's seafood and metals export industries.
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JAKARTA – The first sign of trouble surfaced thousands of miles from Indonesia.
Inspectors in the US are used to seeing containers of frozen shrimp and sneakers pass through their ports. Some 600,000 metric tonnes of the seafood and more than two billion pairs of shoes arrive each year from various countries, usually without incident.
