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

Table 2

Salmonella-positive rates among meat, offal, and processed meat samples.

Meat and offal	Number of samples	Number of Salmonella-positives (%)	Serovars isolated	P values obtained from two-sample tests for proportions between each sample and liquid egg sample
Beef meat	423	1 (0.2%)	S. Infantis* (in 2008)	<0.001
Cattle offal	68	1 (1.5%)	S. Corvallis and O-untypeable (in 2007)	0.014
Processed beef (roast beef)	2	0 (0.0%)		0.581
Pork meat	235	3 (1.3%)	S. Infantis (in 2001 and 2002),; O-untypeable (in 2002)	<0.001
Mixed minced beef and pork	58	1 (1.7%)	S. Typhimurium (in 2005)	0.026
Unrecorded offal	1	0 (0.0%)		Number of samples insufficient for analysis
Unrecorded meat	65	0 (0.0%)		0.003
Total	852	6 (0.7%)

∗S., Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar.