Monitoring of food contamination by pathogenic listeria

The article presents statistical data from monitoring studies of food products conducted on the territory of the Russian Federation for the periods from 2017 to 2021 years. During the analyzed period, state veterinary laboratories received 1555162 samples for examination, horse meat, beef, lamb, pork, poultry meat, meat of other animals, finished products, fats (beef, lamb, pork fat), fish, fish products, caviar, milk, preserves fish, milk, sour cream, kefir, fermented baked milk, cheese and other products. A total of 6933 positive results were identified. The highest percentage of detection of the causative agent of listeriosis was found in beef and poultry meat, the lowest in horse meat, lamb, preserves, and dairy products.