The new Danish Salmonella surveillance on fresh pig carcasses based on pooled swab samples including compatibility with levels of the former system

The nation-wide surveillance of Salmonella in Danish pork has been revised by the 1st of January 2001 and is now based upon swabs from fresh chilled pork carcasses instead of cuts. At each slaughterhouse 5 carcasses are sampled randomly every day and analysed as one pooled sample. The results are evaluated by looking at the results from the last 11 slaughter days. For the first 5 month of the year the prevalence of Salmonella on individual fresh pig carcasses has been 1.7%