| ADI | Acceptable daily intake |
| AMR | Antimicrobial resistance |
| AMU | Antimicrobial usage |
| CIAs | Critically important antimicrobials |
| EFSA | The European Food Safety Authority |
| EMA | European Medicines Agency |
| EOs | Essential oils |
| EU | European Union |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FDA | United States Food and Drug Administration |
| HP-CIAs | Critically important antimicrobials of the highest priority |
| JECFA | Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives |
| MRLs | Maximum residue limits |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| LC-MS-MS | Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry |
| SDGs | United Nations Sustainable Development Goals |
| Nt | total number of analyzed samples |
| NnC | number of non-compliant results |
| DE | Germany |
| BE | Belgium |
| CY | Cyprus |
| FR | France |
| FI | Finland |
| LT | Lithuania |
| CZ | The Czech Republic |
| ES | Spain |
| PL | Poland |
| IT | Italy |
| SK | Slovakia |
| UK | The United Kingdom |
| IE | Ireland |
| SI | Slovenia |
| LU | Luxemburg |
| HR | Croatia |
| AT | Austria |
| DK | Denmark |
| N | Norway |
| EE | Estonia |
| RO | Romania |
| LV | Latvia |
| MT | Malta |