(23 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Jose, California – 5 August 2025
1. Various of Braxton playing basketball
2. Various of Braxton Kimura making a sandwich at home
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
"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."
4. Kimura working at computer
5. Screen showing website of Kimura’s documentary "Last Bite"
6. Braxton at computer
7. Close-up of pair of EpiPen allergy treatments
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
"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."
9. Braxton Kimura and mother looking at wall menu at Vitality Bowl restaurant
10. Digital menu on wall
11. Kimura looking at ingredients on bag of chips
12. Various of Kimura eating acai fruit bowl
13. Various of Kimura eating at Vitality Bowl restaurant
CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE
Sacramento, California – 9 April 2025
14. 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."
15. Senators in hearing room
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Addie Lao, girl with severe food allergies:
"Please pass SB 68 ADDE so that restaurants will label the top nine allergens on their menus. This will keep me safe."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Santa Rosa, California – 25 February 2025
16. Various of chef cooking egg dishes in kitchen of Mac’s Deli and Cafe
17. Waitress serves food to customers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sacramento, California – 31 July 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Sutton, senior vice president, California Restaurant Association:
"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
San Jose, California – 5 August 2025
19. Brian Hom sitting at table talking to Carol and Braxton Kimura in Vitality Bowl restaurant
20. 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."
21. Brian Hom taking customer’s order
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Hom, owner of two Vitality Bowl restaurants, whose son died of allergic reaction:
"As a restaurant owner, I’m in full support of that. Not because only my son had passed, but it’s going to save lives."
23. Braxton Kimura eating at Vitality Bowl
24. Close-up of EpiPen
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Braxton Kimura, student with severe food allergies:
"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."
26. Various of employees prepping ingredients at Vitality Bowl
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Kimura, mother of Braxton Kimura:
28. Paper menu at Vitality Bowl
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Carol Kimura, mother of Braxton Kimura:
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