It’s Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Take a mid-week break and read the main food safety stories of the day.
What to know: President Donald J. Trump’s order to remove some federal jobs with a national security concern from collective bargaining is receiving some pushback. The Safe Food Coalition fears that food safety will be compromised if union contracts with FSIS food safety workers are terminated.
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products processed by a company in Indonesia.
The number of people sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Austria has more than doubled. The suspected source of infection is eggs and egg products.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published two reports on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and bacteria in salmon and meat. One survey covered Listeria, E. coli, and the levels of AMR in salmon fillets and the other tested 300 chicken and 300 turkey fresh retail meat samples.
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