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Table 26: Percent Positive Listeria monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry, CY 2010
Percent Positive Listeria monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry, Calendar Year 2010*
  ALLRTE RTE001 RlmProd Summary by
All Projects
Number of Samples 3,153 8,704 1,854 13,711
Number of Positives 10 24 4 38
Percent Positivea 0.32 0.28 0.22 0.28

* Starting in the fourth quarter of CY 2009 a new complex product coding system was put into effect and as a result the RTE data will be reported by project rather than by product category. Comparison to CY 2008 data can be done by using the project summary data.

a (Number Positive/Number Analyzed x 100)


Last Modified: September 8, 2011

 

 

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