TABLE 2.

Summary of food and environmental studies that have looked for Bacillus cytotoxicus

Food products	Year	Detection of Bacillus cytotoxicus	Number of samples positive and tested	Reference
Vegetable puree	1998	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Lund et al. (2000)
Potato puree	2003	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Fagerlund et al. (2007)
Potato products	2007	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Rau et al. (2009)
Semolina	2008	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Potato products	2008	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Vegetable puree	2008	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Potato products	2009	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Mashed celery	2011	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Mashed fish	2012	+	Sample taken after an outbreak	Glasset et al. (2016)
Potato products	2014	+	53 out of 151 samples	Contzen et al. (2014)
Potato products	2018	+	NK	Heini et al. (2018)
Dairy products	2018	−	NK	Miller et al. (2018)
Spices and herbs	2018	−	NK	Frentzel et al. (2016)
Edible insects	2018	+	NK	Fasolato et al. (2018)
Flour and dough products	2019	−	0 out of 89 samples	Kindle et al. (2019)
Dried food products	2019	+	29 out of 210 samples	Kone et al. (2019)
Soil and rice products	2019	−	0 out of 6 samples	Bağcıoğlu et al. (2019)
Soil	2020	+	NK	Cavello et al. (2020)
Mashed potato powder	2021	+	19 out of 20 samples	Burtscher et al. (2021)

Abbreviation: NK, not known.