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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Anim Health Res Rev. 2014 Jan 8;15(1):63–75. doi: 10.1017/S1466252313000170

Table 1.

Outbreaks associated with pork products

Outbreak location and year STEC serotype stx gene subtype eae gene Food product Reference
Washington and California, USA, 1994 O157:H7 Not specified Not specified Salami (mixed pork and beef) (CDC, 1995a)
Australia, 1995 O111:H- stx1, stx2 Positive Mettwurst (mixture of raw pork, beef, and lamb) (CDC, 1995b; Paton et al., 1996)
Ontario, Canada, 1998 O157:H7 Not specified Not specified Salami (mixed pork and beef) (Williams et al., 2000)
British Columbia, Canada, 1999 O157:H7 Not specified Not specified Salami (mixed pork and beef) (MacDonald et al., 2004)
Italy, 2004 O1 57: non-motile stx1, stx2 Positive Salami (pork only) (Conedera et al., 2007)
Ontario, Canada, 2011 O157:H7 Not specified Not specified Pork from a whole roasted pig (Trotz-Williams et al., 2012)