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. 2017 Dec 12;15(12):e05077. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5077

Figure 25.

Figure 25

Proportion of L. monocytogenes‐positive sampling units in soft and semi‐soft cheeses, and in hard cheeses made from raw or low‐heat‐treated milk or pasteurised milk in the reporting Member States, 2016 across all sampling stages (overall), retail and processing plant levels

  • LHT: low heat treated. ‘Overall’ and the number of MS correspond to data across all major sampling stages (‘retail’ + ‘processing’ + ‘farm’ + ‘border inspection activities’ + ‘unspecified’). ‘Retail’ corresponds to data obtained from catering, hospital or medical care facilities, retail, wholesale and restaurants or cafes or pubs or bars or hotels or catering services. For each sampling stage (‘overall’, ‘retail’ and ‘processing’), data are pooled across both types of sampling units (‘single’ and ‘batch’). ‘Processing’ corresponds to data obtained from packing centres, cutting plants and processing plants. Since data were mostly reported by a limited number of MS, the findings presented in this figure may not be presentative of the EU‐level. Soft and semi‐soft cheeses as well as hard cheeses include all cheeses for which Level 2 at matrix level was specified (‘fresh’ or ‘soft’ or ‘semi‐soft’ or ‘hard’).
  • ‘Soft and semi‐soft cheeses, made from raw‐ LHT milk’ includes detection data from 13 MS (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain).
  • ‘Hard cheeses, made from raw‐ LHT milk’ includes detection data from 7 MS (Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain).
  • ‘Hard cheeses, made from pasteurised milk’ includes detection data from 13 MS (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Spain).
  • ‘Soft and semi‐soft cheeses, made from pasteurised milk’ includes detection data from 15 MS (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain).