19.08.2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released a detailed report outlining 16 years worth of Salmonella data.
Serotypes Profile of Salmonella Isolates from Meat and Poultry Products is a 123-page report that dissects data from reported and collected from January 1998 through December 2014. A few highlights from the report include the following:
-Salmonella sickens roughly 1.2 million Americans annually. An estimated 19,000 of those victims are hospitalized and 380 ultimately succumb to their illness.
-Salmonella is the primary cause of bacterial foodborne illness.
-Salmonella Kentucky is the most common serotype.
FSIS conducts nontyphoidal Salmonella serotype testing on isolates recovered from raw meat and poultry products subject to sampling under the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) verification testing program. The results presented provide an estimate of relative serotype distributions for each product class during the 16-year period following implementation of the PR/HACCP program (1998-2014).