TABLE 62.
Occurrence of Yersinia in major food categories, EU, 2022 and 2018–2021.
| Food | 2022(a) | 2018–2021 b | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N reporting MSs | N sampling units | N positive (%) | N reporting MSs | N sampling units | N positive (%) | |
| RTE food | ||||||
| All | 4 | 328 | 0 (0) | 7 | 2084 | 125 (6) |
| Meat and meat products | 3 | 210 | 0 (0) | 5 | 1915 | 124 (6.5) |
| Meat and meat products from pigs | 3 | 181 | 0 (0) | 3 | 168 | 3 (1.8) |
| Mixed meat and meat products from bovine animals and pigs | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 2 | 1553 | 111 (7.2) |
| Mixed meat | 1 | 3 | 0 (0) | 2 | 137 | 10 (7.3) |
| Meat from other animals and raw cured (or seasoned) meat | 2 | 26 | 0 (0) | 3 | 57 | 0 (0) |
| Milk and milk products | 2 | 62 | 0 (0) | 3 | 72 | 0 (0) |
| Fruits and vegetables | 2 | 56 | 0 (0) | 3 | 62 | 0 (0) |
| RTE salads | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 1 | 4 | 0 (0) |
| Other processed food products and prepared dishes | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 1 | 23 | 1 (4.4) |
| Other food | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 1 | 8 | 0 (0) |
| Non‐RTE food | ||||||
| All | 3 | 404 | 14 (3.5) | 9 | 3796 | 257 (6.8) |
| Meat and meat products | 3 | 401 | 14 (3.5) | 7 | 3411 | 228 (6.7) |
| Milk and milk products | 1 | 3 | 0 (0) | 3 | 261 | 29 (11.1) |
| Other food | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 5 | 124 | 0 (0) |
| Fresh meat c | ||||||
| All fresh meat | 3 | 166 | 12 (7.2) | 7 | 3805 | 283 (7.4) |
| Fresh meat from pigs | 3 | 128 | 10 (7.8) | 6 | 2200 | 124 (5.6) |
| Fresh meat from bovine animals | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 3 | 27 | 1 (3.7) |
| Fresh meat from bovine animals and pigs | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 2 | 1401 | 129 (9.2) |
| Other fresh meat | 1 | 38 | 2 (5.3) | 3 | 177 | 29 (16.4) |
Abbreviations: MSs, Member States; RTE, ‘ready‐to‐eat’.
Notes: Fresh meat includes RTE and non‐RTE food. Other RTE food includes: Bakery products, Cereals and nuts – RTE, Chocolate, Other food – RTE. Other non‐RTE food includes: Cereals, dried seeds – non‐RTE, Egg and egg products – non‐RTE, Fish and fishery products – non‐RTE, Fruits, vegetables and juices – non‐RTE, Foodstuffs intended for special nutritional uses – non‐RTE, Other processed food products and prepared dishes – non‐RTE and Seeds, sprouted – non‐RTE.
For the 2021–2022 period, data 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 2018–2019, because the United Kingdom was still an EU MS at that time. However, on 1 February 2020 it became a third country.
Fresh meat sampling units are a subset of the two main categories above.