TABLE 4.
Summary of Campylobacter statistics relating to humans, major food categories and the main animal species, EU, 2018–2022.
| 2022 a | 2021 a | 2020 | 2019 b | 2018 b | Data source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humans | ||||||
| Total number of confirmed cases | 137,107 | 137,317 | 120,543 | 220,639 | 246,570 | ECDC |
| Total number of confirmed cases/100,000 population (notification rates) | 43.1 | 43.1 | 40.2 | 60.6 | 66.0 | ECDC |
| Number of reporting MSs | 27 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 28 | ECDC |
| Infection acquired in the EU | 78,501 | 81,975 | 70,769 | 109,937 | 116,246 | ECDC |
| Infection acquired outside the EU | 3224 | 704 | 1586 | 6514 | 7685 | ECDC |
| Unknown travel status or unknown country of infection | 55,382 | 54,638 | 48,188 | 104,188 | 122,639 | ECDC |
| Number of foodborne outbreak‐related cases | 1097 | 1051 | 1319 | 1770 | 2365 | EFSA |
| Total number of foodborne outbreaks | 255 | 249 | 317 | 542 | 537 | EFSA |
| Food c | ||||||
| Meat and meat products d | ||||||
| Number of sampling units | 107,162 | 87,808 | 66,099 | 57,027 | 26,514 | EFSA |
| Number of reporting MSs | 27 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 26 | EFSA |
| Milk and milk products e | ||||||
| Number of sampling units | 2633 | 2125 | 2145 | 2749 | 3227 | EFSA |
| Number of reporting MSs | 14 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | EFSA |
| Animals f | ||||||
| Cattle (bovine animals) | ||||||
| Number of sampling units | 5698 | 7529 | 4387 | 6850 | 4220 | EFSA |
| Number of reporting MSs | 7 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 8 | EFSA |
| Gallus gallus (chickens) | ||||||
| Number of sampling units | 9389 | 10,162 | 13,628 | 10,472 | 14,093 | EFSA |
| Number of reporting MSs | 13 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 16 | EFSA |
| Pigs | ||||||
| Number of sampling units | 1820 | 4502 | 2110 | 4308 | 2481 | EFSA |
| Number of reporting MSs | 5 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 5 | EFSA |
Abbreviations: ECDC, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control; EFSA, European Food Safety Authority; MSs, Member States.
For the 2021–2022 period, data on food and animal samples from the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) were taken into account. In accordance with the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU, and in particular with the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the EU requirements on data sampling are also applicable to Northern Ireland.
Data from the United Kingdom were taken into account for the 2018–2019 period, since the United Kingdom was still an EU MS at that time. However, on 1 February 2020, it became a third country.
The number of sampling units was obtained by totalling all sampling units (single, batch, slaughter batch), sampling stages (processing plant, automatic distribution system for raw milk, border control posts, canteen or workplace catering, catering, cold storage, cutting plant, distribution: wholesale and retail sale, farm, game handling establishment, hospital or medical care facility, household, manufacturing, mobile retailer or market/street vendor, packing centre, primary production, restaurant or cafe or pub or bar or hotel or catering service, retail, school or kindergarten, slaughterhouse, storage, takeaway or fast‐food outlet, unspecified and wholesale), sampling strategies (census, convenience sampling, selective sampling, objective sampling and unspecified) and samplers (official sampling, HACCP and own‐check, industry sampling, official and based on regulation 2019/627).
‘Meat and meat products’ refer to carcases and fresh meat/ready‐to‐eat (RTE), cooked and fermented products.
‘Milk and milk products’ refer to raw and pasteurised milk and all dairy products including cheeses.
The number of sampling units was obtained by totalling all sampling units (single animals, slaughter animal batches, holdings and herds or flocks), sampling stages at primary production (natural habitat, conservation facilities, farm, household, slaughterhouse, unspecified, veterinary activities, veterinary clinics, zoo) except artificial insemination station, sampling strategies (objective sampling, census, convenience sampling, selective sampling and suspect sampling) and samplers (HACCP and own‐check, industry sampling, official sampling and private sampling).