Quantitative microbial risk assessment for Salmonella in eggs

Virginie Desvignes (1) , Tasja Buschhardt (2) , Laurent Guillier (1) , Moez Sanaa (1)

1 DER - Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques
2 BfR - Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung - Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

The scope of this quantitative risk assessment model is to estimate the number of salmonellosis cases per million servings of table egg, as well as the probability of illness when ingesting a random serving of table egg. The model describes the potential egg contamination by Salmonella Enteritidis from farm to fork according to time/temperature storage conditions, as well as consumption practices.

Keywords: QMRA model; eggs; Salmonella Enteritidis; R programming language

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Food and Nutrition

Virginie Desvignes, Tasja Buschhardt, Laurent Guillier, Moez Sanaa. Quantitative microbial risk assessment for Salmonella in eggs. Food Modelling Journal, 2019, 1, pp.e39643. ⟨10.3897/fmj.1.39643⟩. ⟨anses-02434116⟩