(23 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Jose, California – 5 August 2025
1. Various of Braxton Kimura playing basketball
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
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"So I was first diagnosed with my food allergy when I was 14 months old, in October of 2009. I had eaten a peanut on the floor and was rushed to the hospital immediately. So I’m anaphylactic to peanuts, shellfish, and have a severe tree nut allergy."
3. Kimura making a sandwich at home
4. Braxton Kimura and mother looking at wall menu at Vitality Bowl restaurant
5. Digital menu on wall
6. Various of Kimura eating at Vitality Bowl restaurant
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
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"Eating out is definitely really dangerous. It’s something that I try to avoid, but it’s ultimately inevitable because you have to eat out with your family, with your friends. So yeah when dining out, obviously I always bring my EpiPens and I’m really nervous all the time."
8. Close-up of pair of EpiPen allergy treatments
CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE
Sacramento, California – 9 April 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Caroline Menjivar (D) Los Angeles:
"So SB 68 is looking to do what a lot of restaurants are already doing – disclose the main allergens that are FDA mentioned and put them on their menus."
10. Senators in hearing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Addie Lao, girl with severe food allergies:
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"Please pass SB 68 ADDE so that restaurants will label the top nine allergens on their menus. This will keep me safe."
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ARCHIVE: Santa Rosa, California – 25 February 2025
12. Various of chef cooking egg dishes in kitchen of Mac’s Deli and Cafe
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sacramento, California – 31 July 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Sutton, senior vice president, California Restaurant Association:
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"You get into a situation where the menu becomes unwieldy and it becomes incredibly impractical and expensive to be constantly converting menus out with each ingredient shift that may occur and the need to do a new allergy notification."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE Santa Rosa, California – 25 February 2025
14. Waitress serves food to customers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Jose, California – 5 August 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Hom, owner of two Vitality Bowl restaurants, whose son died of allergic reaction:
"I’m Bryan Hom, food allergy advocate, parent of a son who has a food allergy and actually lost a son, who was 18 years old to a peanut allergy."
16. Brian Hom taking customer’s order
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Hom, owner of two Vitality Bowl restaurants, whose son died of allergic reaction:
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"As a restaurant owner, I’m in full support of that. Not because only my son had passed, but it’s gonna save lives."
18. Brian Hom sitting at table talking to Carol and Braxton Kimura in Vitality Bowl restaurant
19. Braxton Kimura eating at Vitality Bowl
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
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"I think it would definitely save me time. It would kind of give me more of a peace of mind and would overall just create a better environment and more awareness around food allergies as a whole."
21. employees prepping ingredients at Vitality Bowl
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Kimura, mother of Braxton Kimura:
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"There’s still the opportunity for cross contamination. And that is something that having allergens on a menu is not gonna be enough."
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