Table 17.

Proportion of positive samples for any STEC and STEC belonging to the ‘top‐5’ serogroups in food categories in reporting Member States and reporting non‐Member States, 2016a

Food categoryb	Samples tested by ISO 13136	Samples positive for
		Any STEC		O157		O26		O145		O103		O111
	n	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Bovine meat	4,852	98	2.02	6	0.12	4	0.08	1	0.02	0	0.00	0	0.00
Ovine and goat meat	413	62	15.01	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Other ruminants meatc	48	8	16.67	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Pig meat	938	24	2.56	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Other meatd	2,263	63	2.78	3	0.13	2	0.09	0	0.00	1	0.04	2	0.09
Mixed meat	100	8	8.00	0	0.00	4	4.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Milk and dairy productse	2,399	34	1.42	3	0.13	7	0.29	0	0.00	2	0.08	0	0.00
Raw milkf	1,188	21	1.77	0	0.00	2	0.17	0	0.00	1	0.08	0	0.00
Fruit and vegetable	1,359	9	0.66	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Seedsg	433	1	0.23	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Other food	3,371	42	1.25	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
Total	17,364	370	2.13	12	0.07	19	0.11	1	0.01	4	0.02	2	0.01

n: number of samples; STEC: Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli.

Only samples tested by the ISO/TS 13136 method are included.

^an: number of samples; STEC: Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli.

^bThe different meat categories presented in this table include all type of meat (not only fresh).

^cIncludes meat from deer.

^dIncludes meat from other animals (other than ruminants and pigs).

^eIncludes any type of dairy product, cheese and milk other than raw milk.

^fIncludes raw milk from different species, but most of the tested and all the positive samples were from cows.

^gIncludes only sprouted seeds.