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World Food Safety Day marked globally; Salmonella outbreak sickens 60+ children

It’s Friday, June 6, 2025. We’re closing out the week with several important stories you won’t want to miss.

“Every June 7, we celebrate World Food Safety Day (WFSD), and in 2025 we commemorate its seventh edition. This day aims to raise awareness and promote concrete actions to prevent, detect, and manage foodborne risks, thereby supporting human health, safe trade, responsible agriculture, and sustainable development.”

What to know: German and Austrian authorities are investigating a Salmonella outbreak that has mainly sickened young children. More than 60 children have fallen ill.

The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) reported illnesses were likely caused by an organic cashew butter with raspberries sold at dm drogerie markt.

 

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Arizona’s largest egg producer is urging the USDA to greenlight a poultry vaccine for bird flu, citing the loss of nearly 6 million hens and hundreds of jobs.

Despite the availability of vaccines for other poultry diseases, no option currently exists for avian flu in the U.S., leaving producers vulnerable as the virus continues to spread.

Federal authorities have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling Fusarium graminearum — a fungus that threatens crops and food safety — into the United States, raising concerns about risks to the food supply.

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Inspectors found multiple food safety violations in May at a golf course resort kitchen owned by President Trump.

The inspectors from Somerset County Department of Health found the kitchen at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey to have violations that “constitute gross insanitary or unsafe conditions, which pose an imminent health threat...”

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That’s it for the week — see you tomorrow for our World Food Safety Day Weekend Edition!

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