ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is calling for better inspections after the Food and Drug Administration issued a nationwide recall of imported shrimp found to contain a radioactive isotope .

Speaking from the Senate floor in a video released Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Louisiana Republican warned that some foreign shrimp being sold in U.S. grocery stores could be dangerous and deadly.

“This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien,” Kennedy said next to an image during his speech. “This is what you could end up looking like if you eat some of the raw frozen shrimp... because the shrimp was radioactive. I kid you not... it will kill you.”

Kennedy says the shrimp in question was imported from Indonesia and sold in Walmart under the “Great Value” brand in at lea

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