Overview
- Police in Austria’s Burgenland are still looking for a second Hipp jar sold at a Spar in Eisenstadt after a matching jar was seized nearby.
- Five manipulated baby‑food jars have been secured in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and lab tests confirmed rat poison was added to them with no jars confirmed in Germany.
- Hipp reported receiving an extortion email and set up a crisis team, while Kripo Ingolstadt formed the “Glas” unit and Burgenland prosecutors opened a case for endangering the public.
- Health officials warn rodenticides like bromadiolone block vitamin K and can cause severe bleeding, so parents should avoid jars with a bent lid, no vacuum “plopp,” an odd smell or a white sticker with a red ring on the base and call police.
- Spar Austria issued a recall of Hipp jars, retailers in Czechia and Slovakia pulled stock as a precaution, Rewe and dm paused sales in Austria, and Germany’s Müller is taking back the Carrots with Potatoes jar with refunds.