Table 30.

Proportion of positive samples for any STEC and STEC belonging to the ‘top‐five’ serogroups in food categories, in reporting MS, 2019

Food categorya	Samples positive for
	Any STEC	O157	O26	O145	O103	O111
	N	N	N	N	N	N
Bovine meat	315	14	7	4	4	1
Ovine and goat meat	102	3	3	0	2	0
Other ruminants meatb	10	0	0	0	0	0
Pig meat	54	0	0	0	0	0
Other meatc	21	0	0	0	1	0
Mixed meat	16	0	0	0	1	0
Milk and dairy productsd	39	0	3	0	0	0
Raw milke	52	1	1	0	0	0
Fruit and vegetable	2	0	0	0	0	0
seedsf	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other food	5	0	0	0	0	0
Total	616	18	14	4	8	1

MS: Member State; N: number of samples; STEC: Shiga toxin‐producing Escherichia coli.

Note: Only results from samples tested by the ISO TS 13136:2012 method were included.

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

^bIncludes meat from deer.

^cIncludes meat from other animals (other than ruminants).

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

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

^fIncludes only sprouted seeds.