It's Friday, October 10, 2025. Today’s newsletter highlights key food safety developments, from California’s landmark law banning ultra-processed foods in schools to a surge in Salmonella infections in Israel.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law to legally define ultra-processed foods, or UPF, and phase out the most harmful ones from California public school meals.
Researchers have suggested that chicken meat is an important source of infections from a type of Salmonella in Israel.
Salmonella surveillance in humans in Israel relies on reporting of cases to the national reference laboratory of the Ministry of Health.
A United Nations agency focused on human rights is planning a report that covers food safety and fraud.
A working group at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is seeking input to several questions.
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
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