Good morning! It’s Wednesday, March 26th, 2025. Let’s check in on today’s most important food safety news.
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What to know: West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed House Bill 2354 into law on March 24, making the state the first to enact a comprehensive statewide ban on certain artificial food dyes and preservatives.
The legislation, inspired by the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement, will prohibit seven synthetic dyes in school meals starting Aug. 1, with the ban extending to all food and drugs sold statewide by Jan. 1, 2028. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has told food executives that removing artificial food dyes is an urgent priority.
Latvian public health officials have reported 12 recent E. coli infections with mostly children sick.
The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) said it is conducting an epidemiological investigation because of the registered cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) to determine the sources of infection.
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A charity in Australia has repeated a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms.
The Food Safety Information Council’s annual message comes as mushrooms are starting to appear around Australia with it being Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
Lydia Buchtmann, Food Safety Information Council CEO, said foraging for food is becoming popular, especially through promotion on social media, but gathering wild mushrooms can be dangerous.
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