Table 16.
Comparisons of prevalence of Salmonella target serovar‐positive broiler flocks, by sampler and by reporting Member States, EU, 2017
| Country | Competent authorities (CA) | Food Business Operator (FBOp) | p‐valuea | Interpretation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tested | Positive target | % | CI95 | Tested | Positive target | % | CI95 | |||
| Austria | 66 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 5.43]a | 5,024 | 3 | 0.06 | [0.01; 0.17] | NS | |
| Belgium | 78 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 4.62]a | 10,219 | 27 | 0.26 | [0.17; 3.84] | NS | |
| Croatia | 47 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 7.55]a | ||||||
| Cyprus | 8 | 0 | 0.00 | ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ | 906 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.41]a | ||
| Czech Republic | 37 | 3 | 8.11 | [1.70; 21.91] | 4,801 | 75 | 1.56 | [1.23; 1.95] | * | CA > FBOp |
| Denmark | 253 | 0 | 0.00 | [0; 1.45]a | 4,290 | 14 | 0.33 | [0.19; 0.58] | NS | |
| Estonia | 444 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.83]a | 571 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.64]a | NS | |
| Finland | 532 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.69]a | 3,352 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.11]a | NS | |
| Germany | 378 | 8 | 2.12 | [0.92; 4.13] | 24,088 | 10 | 0.04 | [0.02; 0.08] | *** | CA > FBOp |
| Greece | 103 | 3 | 2.91 | [0.60; 8.28] | 7,742 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.05]a | *** | CA > FBOp |
| Hungary | 49 | 0 | 0.00 | [0; 7.25]a | 6,632 | 14 | 0.21 | [0.11; 0.36] | NS | |
| Ireland | 41 | 0 | 0.00 | [0; 8.6]a | 3701 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.1]a | NS | |
| Italy | 675 | 5 | 0.74 | [0.24; 1.72] | 23,005 | 3 | 0.01 | [0.00; 0.04] | NS | |
| Latvia | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ | 677 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.54]a | ||
| Malta | 4 | 0 | 0.00 | ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐ | 412 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 0.89]a | ||
| Poland | 734 | 20 | 2.72 | [1.67; 4.18] | 40,644 | 31 | 0.08 | [0.052; 0.11] | *** | CA > FBOp |
| Portugal | 126 | 2 | 1.59 | [0.19; 5.62] | 10,934 | 5 | 0.05 | [0.01; 0.11] | ** | CA > FBOp |
| Romania | 940 | 1 | 0.11 | [0.00; 0.59] | 11,622 | 1 | 0.01 | [0.00; 0.05] | NS | |
| Slovakia | 96 | 1 | 1.04 | [0.02; 5.67] | 2,781 | 13 | 0.47 | [0.25; 0.8] | NS | |
| Slovenia | 31 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 11.22]a | 2,452 | 1 | 0.04 | [0.00; 0.23] | NS | |
| Spain | 464 | 1 | 0.22 | [0.00; 1.19] | 39,364 | 25 | 0.06 | [0.04; 0.09] | NS | |
| Sweden | 153 | 0 | 0.00 | [0; 2.38]a | 4,570 | 2 | 0.04 | [0.01; 0.16] | NS | |
| United Kingdom | 192 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 1.90]a | 52,982 | 5 | 0.01 | [0.00; 0.02] | NS | |
| Switzerland | 39 | 0 | 0.00 | [0.00; 9.02]a | 460 | 3 | 0.65 | [0.14; 1.89] | NS | |
| Total (MS) | 5,454 | 44 | 0.81 | [0.59; 1.1] | 26,076 | 229 | 0.09 | [0.08; 0.10] | *** | CA > FBOp |
‐ ‐ ‐ ‐: The confidence interval is not provided because of the small sample size;
a one‐sided, 97.5% confidence interval; p‐value interpretation: NS: not significant; *< 0.05; **< 0.01; ***< 0.001.