Figure 1.

Lack of microbial species identification in non-food product recalls compared to food products. The diversity of microorganisms responsible for product recalls in the European databases was analysed for food and non-food products between 2005 and 2018. The proportion of organism types detected for the 7577 food product and 378 non-food product isolations made in recall incidents is shown in panels A and B, respectively. Each labelled segment highlights where organisms represented ≥1% of the total number of recall reports in the period. Unidentified organisms in each database are highlighted in the blue font.