{"id":48394,"date":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48394"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:04:28","slug":"rat-poison-found-in-baby-food-jar-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=48394","title":{"rendered":"Rat poison found in baby food jar in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Police in Austria said late on Saturday that rat poison was found inside a jar of HiPP baby food, following a recall of the product from more than 1,000 SPAR supermarkets in the country over safety fears.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Burgenland, Austria, said in a statement that a sample from one of the 190-gram jars of &#8220;Carrots and Potatoes&#8221; baby food reported by a customer had tested positive for rat poison.<\/p>\n<p>HIPP had said on Saturday that it could not be ruled out that a dangerous substance was introduced into the product and that its HiPP Vegetable Carrot with Potato jars may have been tampered with.<\/p>\n<p>Consuming the contents of jars could be life-threatening, HiPP said.<\/p>\n<p>The police statement said the affected jars had a sticker with a red circle on the bottom of the jar and a lid that had already been opened, damaged, or missing a safety seal, or had an unusual smell.<\/p>\n<p>They said initial lab tests on similar jars seized by police in the Czech Republic and Slovakia showed the presence of a toxic substance. The statement gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p>The police also said authorities in Austria were warned about the risk following investigations in Germany. They provided no further details.<\/p>\n<p>HiPP said on Saturday: &#8220;According to our current knowledge, this critical situation involves an external criminal interference that affects the SPAR Austria distribution channel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HiPP was not immediately available for comment on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A SPAR spokesperson told Reuters on Saturday that the product recall was a precautionary measure and affected 1,500 stores in Austria, with no impact on outlets elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>SPAR and HiPP advised customers not to consume the contents of the jars bought from SPAR Austria. They said customers would receive a full refund on returned products. Police advised customers to wash their hands thoroughly if they came into contact with a jar.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Austria said late on Saturday that rat poison was found inside a jar of HiPP baby food, following a recall of the product from more than 1,000 SPAR supermarkets in the country over safety fears. Police in Burgenland, Austria, said in a statement that a sample from one of the 190-gram jars of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}