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• Analysis finds problems with Austria’s foodborne outbreak data collection

  An analysis of foodborne outbreak data collection in Austria has found issues with completeness and consistency. A report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) shared results of a data flow mapping and analysis methodology applied to Austria’s foodborne outbreaks data collection. It contains information on the steps, organizations, tools, systems, formats, structural and...

• Austria discloses details of multi-country Salmonella outbreak

  More than 40 people have been infected with a rare strain of Salmonella in Austria. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said 49 sick people come from all nine federal states and have been infected with Salmonella Kenya since August 2025. Cases include 29 females and 20 males, with a median age of...

• Austria continues to battle Salmonella outbreak with 72 now confirmed sick

  The number of people sick in a Salmonella outbreak in Austria has more than doubled. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said 72 people are now ill, up from the previous total of 35. Patients were detected between December 2024 and July 2025 and live in eight federal states. 32 people had...

• Austrian Court Approves Arbitration Award Rendered by Panel Applying Islamic Law

  The European Conservative reported this week that the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters in Vienna, Austria has confirmed an arbitration decision reached by arbitrators who applied Islamic law (Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah principles). Parties to a contract had agreed to submit their contract dispute to the Muslim law panel. According to the news report: The court …...

• Austria sees outbreaks decrease but hospitalizations climb

  Reported outbreaks fell in 2024 in Austria but the number of people requiring hospitalization doubled compared to the year before, according to recently released data. In 2024, 34 foodborne outbreaks were reported, eight fewer than in 2023. A total of 194 people were affected, which is down from 222 cases in 2023. Overall, 77 people...

• Austrian Salmonella outbreak linked to poultry products

  More than 30 people have been sickened in a Salmonella outbreak in Austria. The Ministry of Health asked the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) to investigate the outbreak with help from local authorities. AGES reported that 35 people have become ill with a specific strain of Salmonella since December 2024. Ten people...

• San Diego County supervisors plan $40K taxpayer-funded European trip organized by high-profile consultant San Diego Union-Tribune

  A pair of San Diego County supervisors are going on a taxpayer-funded junket to Austria that could cost as much as $40,000 through a company owned by a high-profile local housing consultant. The proposed $40,000 trip to Vienna by Democrat Monica Montgomery Steppe and Republican Joel Anderson would give elected officials a first-hand look at...

• Children sick in two-country Salmonella outbreak

  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. The majority of patients are children aged...

• Fedtrade® Podcast – Lukas Zitz, Deputy Austrian Trade Commissioner of Advantage Austria – SelectUSA Spotlight

  The Fedtrade® podcast recently interviewed Lukas Zitz, Deputy Austrian Trade Commissioner of Advantage Austria, as part of our SelectUSA Investment Summit Spotlight series. With around 100 offices in over 70 countries, Advantage Austria provides a broad range of intelligence and business development services for both Austrian companies and their international business partners. Members of Advantage Austria will be...

• Two infected with Listeria from Austrian cheese

  Health officials have issued a warning after two people fell sick with Listeriosis following consumption of soft cheese from Austria. The Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) said no confirmed cases have yet been reported in Austria. One person in Germany and one person in the Czech Republic fell ill with listeriosis after...

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• Austrian Police Arrest Overeager Photographers in Fritzl Case

  Police have arrested more than a dozen photographers attempting to get pictures of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, who are at the center of the rape-incest case in a town in Austria. Spokespersons for law enforcement said that photographers were very enterprising, even dressing up as police...

• EU/Austria: CJEU rules on the definition of audiovisual media services

  What is nowadays to be seen as a “programme“? And, what does characterize the “principal purpose” of a video section offered in the electronic version of a newspaper? These questions have been submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union lately. On 21 October, the judges handed down...

• Austrian Hepatitis A cases match strain in Swedish outbreak

  Austria has become part of a multi-country Hepatitis A outbreak with 31 confirmed cases linked to frozen strawberries imported from Poland. The outbreak of hepatitis A virus (HAV) is connected to the one recently declared over in Sweden which affected 20 people in six counties. Of these cases, 17...

• Austria records more than 800 food recalls in past decade

  More than 1,000 product warnings, recalls and notices for food, food contact materials, cosmetics and toys were published in Austria between 2010 and 2019. The main reasons were residues, microorganisms and contamination by foreign material. Most commonly affected products included toys, cereal...

• Commerce Initiates New Administrative Reviews on AD/CVD Orders

  On December 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice initiating new administrative reviews for antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with November anniversary dates. Listed below are the countries and products named in the notice: Austria Strontium Chromate (...

• Extra, Extra, Extraterritorial, Read All About It: Supreme Court Considers Lanham Act’s Reach

  Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Abitron Austria GmbH et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. and considered, for the first time since 1952, the extraterritorial reach of the Lanham Act. This case presents the opportunity for the Court to establish a uniform test for the Lanham...

• Dairy firm boss faces jail after deadly Listeria outbreak

  The head of a dairy company behind a Listeria outbreak in Austria faces more than a year in prison. The boss of Käserei Gloggnitz was sentenced to 13 months in jail this week. The 39-year-old faced several charges but denied the allegations and the verdict was reported not to be final, according to ...

• Immigrant of the Day: Max Reinhardt (Austria-Hungary)

  Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an influential theatre and film director and actor. He was born Maximilian Goldmann in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. From 1902 until the beginning of Nazi rule in 1933, he worked as a director at various theaters in Berlin. From 1905 to 1930, he managed the...

• EU/Austria: CJEU rules on the definition of audiovisual media services

  What is nowadays to be seen as a “programme“? And, what does characterize the “principal purpose” of a video section offered in the electronic version of a newspaper? These questions have been submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union lately. On 21 October, the judges handed down...

• The USITC Reaches a Unanimous Preliminary Injury Determination in Strontium Chromate from Austria and France

    On October 19, 2018, the U.S. International Trade Commission made affirmative determinations in the preliminary phase of the antidumping duty investigations on Strontium Chromate from Austria and France. Husch Blackwell filed this case on September 5, 2018 on behalf of the U.S. industry. See our...