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Table 27: Percent Positive Salmonella Tests for RTE meat and poultry, CY 2011
Percent Positive Salmonella Tests for RTE meat and poultry, Calendar Year 2011*
  ALLRTE RTE001 Summary of All Projects
Number of Samples
3,293 8,864 12,157
Number of Positives 3 8 11
Percent Positivea 0.09 0.09 0.09

* 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) in 325 grams of tested product
Table 28: Percent Positive L. monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry, CY 2011
Percent Positive Listeria monocytogenes Tests for RTE meat and poultry, Calendar Year 2011*
  ALLRTE RTE001 RlmProd Summary by All Projects
Number of Samples 3,295 8,885 1,973 14,153
Number of Positives 8 27 3 38
Percent Positivea 0.24 0.30 0.15 0.27

* 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)


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