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Table 18. Percent Positive Listeria monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry products, CY 2006

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Percent Positive Listeria monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry products, CY 2006
  ALLRTE RTERISK1 RTE001 RLmPROD Summary by Product Type
Peeled Sausage Type Product 2.22a
(2/90)b
0.00
(0/7)
0.29
(2/678)
0.00
(0/50)
0.48
(4/825)
Unpeeled Sausage Type Product 0.38
(2/525)
0.00
(0/56)
0.09
(2/2268)
0.00
(0/54)
0.14
(4/2903)
Large Mass
Chopped and Formed
0.00
(0/77)
0.00
(0/11)
0.21
(1/475)
0.00
(0/54)
0.16
(1/617)
Large Mass
Whole Muscle
1.23
(2/162)
0.00
(0/14)
0.66
(6/907)
0.00
(0/85)
0.68
(8/1168)
Small Mass
Chopped and Formed
0.28
(1/354)
0.00
(0/41)
0.34
(2/585)
0.00
(0/24)
0.30
(3/1004)
Small Mass
Whole Muscle
0.75
(2/268)
0.00
(0/30)
0.00
(0/338)
0.00
(0/4)
0.31
(2/640)
Salads / Paté / Spreads 0.75
(1/133)
11.11
(1/9)
1.01
(3/296)
0.00
(0/9)
1.12
(5/447)
Sliced, Diced and Shredded 0.85
(5/587)
1.32
(1/76)
0.88
(21/2373)
0.00
(0/235)
0.83
(27/3271)
Multi-component Products 0.44
(3/675)
0.00
(0/81)
0.49
(3/615)
0.00
(0/15)
0.43
(6/1386)
Other 0.00
(0/66)
0.00
(0/3)
0.00
(0/42)
0.00
(0/0)
0.00
(0/111)
Summary by HACCP
Process Type
0.61
(18/2937)
0.61
(2/328)
0.47
(40/8577)
0.00
(0/530)
0.48
(60/12,372c)

a Percent Positive
b (Number Positive/Number Analyzed x 100) in 25 grams of tested product
c This total does not include 2,745 product contact surface and environmental samples that were analyzed as part of RLm. Thus, the total number of L. monocytogenes analyses for CY 2006, excluding all follow-up sampling and sampling of imported products, was 15,117.


Last Modified: December 11, 2007

 

 

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