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. 2022 Dec 13;20(12):e07666. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7666

Table 71.

Occurrence of Yersinia in the main food categories, EU, 2021 and 2017–2020

Food 2021 (a) 2017–2020 (b)
N reporting MSs N sampling units N positive (%) N reporting MSs N sampling units N positive (%)
RTE food
All 6 355 3 (0.85) 6 1,768 122 (6.9)
Meat and meat products 4 232 3 (1.3) 4 1,707 121 (7.1)
Meat and meat products from pigs 2 144 3 (2.1) 2 36 0 (0)
Mixed meat and meat products from bovine animals and pigs 0 0 0 (0) 2 1,553 111 (7.1)
Mixed meat 1 37 0 (0) 2 100 10 (10)
Meat from other animals and raw cured (or seasoned) meat 2 51 0 (0) 3 18 0 (0)
Milk and milk products 1 43 0 (0) 3 31 0 (0)
Fruits and vegetables 1 55 0 (0) 4 10 0 (0)
RTE salads 1 4 0 (0) 0 0 0 (0)
Other processed food products and prepared dishes 1 21 0 (0) 2 4 1 (25.0)
Other food 0 0 0 (0) 2 16 0 (0)
Non‐RTE food
All 6 736 38 (5.2) 8 4,092 283 (6.9)
Meat and meat products 5 698 38 (5.4) 7 3,722 254 (6.8)
Milk and milk products 1 23 0 (0) 3 238 29 (12.2)
Other food 2 15 0 (0) 5 132 0 (0)
Fresh meat (c)
All fresh meat 5 418 29 (6.9) 7 4,026 310 (7.7)
Fresh meat from pigs 5 366 26 (7.1) 5 2,400 148 (6.2)
Fresh meat from bovine animals 1 10 0 (0) 3 34 1 (2.9)
Fresh meat from bovine animals and pigs 0 0 0 (0) 2 1,401 129 (9.2)
Other fresh meat 2 42 3 (7.1) 3 191 32 (16.8)

MSs: Member States; RTE: ‘ready‐to‐eat’.

Fresh meat includes RTE and non‐RTE food.

Other RTE food includes: Bakery products, Cereals and nuts – RTE, Chocolate, Other food – RTE

Other non‐RTE food includes: Cereals, dried seeds – non‐RTE, Egg and egg products – non‐RTE, Fish and fishery products – non‐RTE, Fruits, vegetables and juices – non‐RTE, Foodstuffs intended for special nutritional uses – non‐RTE, Other processed food products and prepared dishes – non‐RTE and Seeds, sprouted – non‐RTE.

(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)

: Fresh meat sampling units are a subset of the two main categories above.