Salmonella in Liquid Eggs and Other Foods in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Table 1

Prevalence of Salmonella in retail food samples from Fukuoka Prefecture.

Samples	Number of samples tested by year
	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Total
Meat, offal, and processed meat	65	60	87 (1)^†	73 (2)	73	76	81 (1)	76	83 (1)	78 (1)	78	22	852 (6)§
Liquid eggs	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5 (1)^‡	5	5 (1)	5 (1)	5 (1)	30 (4)**
Seafood and processed seafood*	55	30	30	30	25	25	20	20	20	20	23	10	308
Vegetables, processed vegetables, fruits, and herbs*	70	90	80	80	70	70	75	75	75	75	71	0	831
	190	180	197	183	168	171	181	176	183	178	177	37	2,021

∗No Salmonella were isolated from seafood, processed seafood, vegetables, processed vegetables, fruit, and herbs.
†Number of Salmonella-positive samples.
‡In liquid eggs, Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar (S.) Enteritidis were isolated in 2006 and 2009. S. Montevideo and S. Braenderup were also isolated in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
§Meat, offal, and processed meat samples harbored significantly more Salmonella than the seafood and processed seafood samples (𝑃<0.001); there was no difference in the incidence of Salmonella between the meat, offal, and processed meat samples and vegetable, processed vegetable, fruit, and herb samples (𝑃=0.503).
∗∗Liquid egg samples harbored significantly more Salmonella than the other three groups of samples (𝑃<0.001).