Table 19.
Occurrence of Salmonella in the main food categories, EU, 2021 and 2017–2020
| Food | 2021 (a) | 2017–2020 (b) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N reporting MSs | N sampled units | N positive (%) | N reporting MSs | N sampled units | N positive (%) | |
| RTE food | ||||||
| All | 23 | 73,238 | 169 (0.23) | 25 | 279,268 | 746 (0.27) |
| Meat and meat products | 21 | 22,589 | 99 (0.44) | 21 | 66,284 | 320 (0.48) |
| Meat and meat products from broilers | 12 | 1,706 | 0 | 16 | 5,128 | 25 (0.49) |
| Meat and meat products from turkeys | 9 | 213 | 0 | 14 | 1,593 | 7 (0.44) |
| Meat and meat products from pigs | 18 | 8,014 | 66 (0.82) | 19 | 27,874 | 110 (0.39) |
| Meat and meat products from bovine animals | 16 | 1,219 | 2 (0.16) | 19 | 4,243 | 14 (0.33) |
| Mixed | 10 | 2,956 | 4 (0.14) | 17 | 5,289 | 18 (0.34) |
| Other meat and meat products | 13 | 8,481 | 27 (0.32) | 17 | 22,157 | 146 (0.66) |
| Milk and milk products | 21 | 21,583 | 22 (0.1) | 24 | 93,802 | 111 (0.12) |
| Milk | 12 | 634 | 1 (0.16) | 15 | 2,828 | 1 (0.04) |
| Raw milk (c) | 5 | 211 | 0 | 7 | 1,812 | 0 |
| Cheese | 21 | 15,422 | 19 (0.12) | 23 | 48,587 | 74 (0.15) |
| Dairy products excluding cheeses (butter, cream, ice cream, whey, yoghurt and fermented dairy products) | 20 | 5,527 | 2 (0.04) | 21 | 42,387 | 36 (0.08) |
| Fruits and vegetables and juices | 18 | 6,261 | 3 (0.05) | 20 | 20,591 | 22 (0.11) |
| Fish and fishery products | 22 | 2,809 | 11 (0.39) | 22 | 12,909 | 10 (0.08) |
| Spices and herbs | 16 | 1,529 | 11 (0.72) | 19 | 5,636 | 41 (0.73) |
| Bakery products | 17 | 2,940 | 0 (0) | 18 | 16,110 | 34 (0.21) |
| Salads | 9 | 2,194 | 1 (0.05) | 15 | 12,866 | 47 (0.37) |
| Other processed food products and prepared dishes | 17 | 8,891 | 16 (0.18) | 16 | 30,362 | 122 (0.4) |
| Eggs and egg products | 3 | 46 | 0 | 8 | 244 | 0 |
| Sprouts (sprouted seeds) | 9 | 512 | 0 | 11 | 1,234 | 2 (0.16) |
| Cereals and nuts | 9 | 859 | 1 (0.12) | 15 | 3,008 | 3 (0.1) |
| Confections | 4 | 73 | 0 | 7 | 3,740 | 3 (0.08) |
| Infant formulae and follow‐on formulae–RTE | 12 | 1,127 | 1 (0.09) | 16 | 4,933 | 22 (0.45) |
| Foodstuffs intended for special nutritional uses | 10 | 588 | 1 (0.17) | 14 | 1,905 | 1 (0.05) |
| Non‐RTE food | ||||||
| All | 26 | 466,290 | 9,764 (2.1) | 28 | 1,034,606 | 22,086 (2.1) |
| Meat and meat products | 26 | 443,056 | 9,593 (2.2) | 28 | 945,084 | 21,747 (2.3) |
| Meat and meat products from broilers | 25 | 109,342 | 4,763 (4.4) | 26 | 148,380 | 9,521 (6.4) |
| Meat and meat products from turkeys | 22 | 13,049 | 472 (3.6) | 25 | 21,513 | 1,097 (5.1) |
| Meat and meat products from pigs | 26 | 136,975 | 2,050 (1.5) | 28 | 390,797 | 6,789 (1.7) |
| Meat and meat products from bovine animals | 25 | 86,507 | 237 (0.27) | 27 | 135,711 | 532 (0.39) |
| Mixed | 14 | 6,102 | 66 (1.1) | 19 | 25,656 | 218 (0.85) |
| Other meat and meat products | 25 | 91,081 | 2,005 (2.2) | 25 | 223,027 | 3,590 (1.6) |
| Milk and milk products | 11 | 996 | 0 (0) | 13 | 4,902 | 1 (0.02) |
| Fruits, vegetables and juices | 13 | 1,795 | 1 (0.06) | 21 | 9,078 | 54 (0.59) |
| Fish and fishery products | 18 | 7,093 | 46 (0.65) | 21 | 27,074 | 147 (0.54) |
| Eggs and egg products | 18 | 6,501 | 53 (0.82) | 20 | 27,281 | 92 (0.34) |
| Sprouts (sprouted seeds) | 5 | 85 | 0 | 8 | 1,337 | 5 (0.37) |
| Infant formulae | 4 | 175 | 0 | 4 | 244 | 0 |
| Foodstuffs intended for special nutritional uses | 5 | 317 | 0 | 7 | 789 | 2 (0.25) |
| Cereals, dried seeds | 9 | 409 | 1 (0.24) | 18 | 2,700 | 21 (0.78) |
| Other processed food products and prepared dishes | 10 | 3,779 | 38 (1) | 18 | 10,240 | 12 (0.12) |
| Fresh meat (d) | ||||||
| All | 26 | 387,152 | 8,219 (2.1) | 26 | 122,337 | 18,812 (2.4) |
| Fresh meat from broilers | 25 | 99,370 | 4,382 (4.4) | 25 | 17,843 | 8,586 (7.0) |
| Fresh meat from turkeys | 22 | 12,600 | 441 (3.5) | 28 | 348,156 | 989 (5.5) |
| Fresh meat from pigs | 26 | 124,467 | 1,902 (1.5) | 27 | 129,721 | 6,205 (1.8) |
| Fresh meat from bovine animals | 25 | 83,703 | 214 (0.26) | 24 | 154,371 | 481 (0.37) |
| Other fresh meat | 25 | 67,012 | 1,280 (1.9) | 26 | 122,337 | 2,551 (1.7) |
MSs: Member States; RTE: ready‐to‐eat.
(a)
: Data from the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) are taken into account for 2021. In accordance with the agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU, and in particular with the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the EU requirements on data sampling are also applicable to Northern Ireland.
(b)
: Data from the United Kingdom are taken into account for 2017–2019, because the United Kingdom was an EU MS, but it became a third country on 1 February 2020.
(c)
: Raw RTE milk sampling units are a subset of RTE milk.
(d)
: Fresh meat sampling units are a subset of the two main categories above.