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Cloves seem nuked here
The Citizen
|October 15, 2025
Indonesian authorities found traces of radioactivity at a clove farm on Sumatra island, a government spokesperson said yesterday, as Jakarta expanded an investigation launched after the US health authority detected Caesium-137 contamination of spices from Indonesia.
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The US Food and Drug Administration said it had detected the presence of caesium-137 in a sample of cloves from PT Natural Java Spice during screening after the radioactive isotope was also detected in August in a sample of frozen shrimp.
This story is from the October 15, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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